Word: contemptibly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While it is going down, they mull over their contempt for the lady's dull husband ("He hasn't a scrap of poetry in him"). The lover has just whispered: "Let us make love tonight-as never before," when he notices that the elevator is going "down and down interminably." It does not stop until the Devil ("stylishly dressed in tails that hung on [his] hairy top vertebra as on a rusty nail") opens the grille and leads the lovers into a hellish hotel bedroom. Wine is brought them by a very "stern, very grave" waiter with...
...Never before," veteran aides commented, "had the House committee been stopped so short in an inquiry." Velde's committee immediately voted unanimously to recommend him for contempt and later secured the citation from Congress. The citation is at present at the Attorney General's office, waiting for a decision on presenting it to a Grand Jury...
...those threatened with contempt by committees have been cited...
Professors 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...
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 Fifty 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...