Word: contemptibly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...good four months the South had been living with the U.S. Supreme Court's decision against segregation, but familiarity was apparently breeding greater and greater contempt. Last week, through Delaware, Maryland, West Virginia and Georgia, Southern tempers flared...
Both faculty and students seem to have absorbed a large measure of this spirit. When a popular Cornell faculty member, Marcus Singer, was cited for contempt by a Congressional committee for refusing to name his associates in a pre-war Marxist study group at Harvard, both faculty and student groups defended him. The faculty of Arts and Sciences unanimously expressed its faith in his loyalty and the Student Council added its support for his moral position...
Professor throughout the country realized last month that government investigating committees meant threats of contempt citations seriously. On May 11, the House voted unanimously to cite for contempt nine witnesses who refused to answer questions before the House Un-American Activities Committee...
...those threatened with contempt by committees have been cited...
Also cited for contempt was Lawrence Baker Arguimbau, former M.I.T. professor. Arguimbau admitted membership in the Communist party itself, thus waiving privileges of the Fifth Amendment, but also refused to name associates or answer questions that might lead to identification of them. After giving his testimony to the Velde Committee, Arguimbau resigned his associate professorship at the Institute...