Word: contemptibly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Boston, Harvard's Dr. Wendell H. Furry, associate professor of physics, and ex-Communist Leon J. Kamin, 26, onetime Harvard teaching fellow, were indicted for contempt of the U.S. Senate, i.e., for refusing to answer questions put by Senator Joseph R. McCarthy's subcommittee last winter (TIME...
...Grunfeld, there is so much music on the market that some connoisseurs are forced to specialize in such restricted areas as complete Beethoven Quartet issues. When quizzed about some rare or new release that he knows absolutely nothing about, the good Diskman replies "in a thinly disguised tone of contempt: 'Sorry, I haven't gotten around to that yet. I've been busy comparing the new Barstow Quartet series with the earlier complete Beethovens. Takes a while, y' know...
More than two-thirds of the U.S. Senate had, therefore, condemned McCarthy for 1) contempt of the Hennings-Hayden-Hendrickson subcommittee that investigated him in 1951-52, and 2) his conduct toward the Senate and the Watkins committee since censure was recommended. Over and above these specific counts, McCarthy's colleagues censured him for bringing the Senate into dishonor and disrepute and for obstructing its legislative processes...
...Eight persons have been indicted on charges of contempt of the House Un-American Activities Committee...
...accused scores of Government employees of being Communists. But of these, only one man, former State Department Official Val Lorwin, was indicted. Lorwin turned out to be a lifelong antiCommunist, and the case against him was dismissed. In addition, indictments have been returned against three persons charged with contempt of the McCarthy committee...