Word: contemptibly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...every important respect but one. They rid themselves of the Fifth Amendment, whose previous use had given the impression that they might be shielding themselves from prosecution for some crime. Both testified freely about themselves, but for reasons of conscience, refused to talk about others. Both were cited for contempt. In discarding their constitutional armor and gambling on a favorable decision by the courts, Furry and Kamin were at least assuming full responsibility for their moral decisions, instead of placing most of it on the Corporation. As long as they were using the Fifth Amendment, the University had to defend...
five days later, following a flurry of communications between President Pusey and McCarthy, the Senator announced that he would initiate contempt of court proceedings against Furry. At that time McCarthy claimed that Furry. At that time McCarthy claimed that Furry would be called before a television audience early in December...
...McCarthy has done nothing with the proposed contempt case and postponed the hearings...
...jump to the conclusion that an act which you have committed, or commit frequently, is all right simply because you can mention a sexual-research project that proves you've got plenty of company. In this country there are large numbers of automobile drivers who have a habitual contempt for traffic laws. They speed, forget to signal, pass stop lights and obstruct fireplugs when they park. But their growing numbers do not make their crimes 'all right' . . . Sexual behavior, like any other kind, must be tested for Tightness or wrongness by your own conscience. Will it harm...
...library," reported Bagdikian, for "known race-hate agitators." One of the original library books, withdrawn after protests, was We Must Abolish the United States, by Joseph Kamp ("I pull no punches in exposing the Jewish Gestapo or any Jew who happens to be a Jew"). Kamp was jailed for contempt of Congress after refusing to reveal the backers of his Constitution al Educational League. Bagdikian also set forth that Facts Forum tells its members how to get on the mailing list of such organizations as Merwin K. Hart's National Economic Council, described by the Buchanan Lobbying Committee...