Word: contemptibly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communist." He was afraid that Ed would face Army punishment or social contempt in Cracker's Neck. Neither fear seemed justified. Pentagon policy will be to treat Dickenson just as any other repatriated P.W., and Cracker's Neck (three stores, a church and a few houses) was resolved to welcome Ed as a hero. Learning of this, Jim Dickenson calmed down and Dave Dickenson began to talk. As Dave roamed around the kitchen, swatting flies, he said: "This is about all I ever do now. Bessie does everything else. She does all the talking...
...Attorney General grants witness immunity from prosecution and therefore from incrimination; 3) witness is asked the question again, but can no longer plead the Fifth Amendment because his answer cannot incriminate him; 4) if witness then refuses to answer he would be subject to a contempt charge...
Reporter Barzini wants the U.S. to buckle down harder to the everyday tasks of a great nation. He wants Americans to stop feeling contempt for "blocs," "spheres of influence," and "balances of power," because these are the "technical means by which any policy, aggressive and imperialistic, or noble and disinterested, can be promoted." He wants them to apply "to political transactions . . . the same knowledge of human nature which Americans use daily in their national card game, poker." Above all, he wants the U.S. to stop taking the initiative only in emergencies, and adjust itself to the permanent crisis, "the psychology...
...mere writing apparently cleared the Shavian atmosphere, and now he speaks quite calmly about his early phobias. "Of course I was contemptuous of the crowds," he says. "I was so insecure I thought they were yelling for something that was beneath contempt. The same thing goes for my marriages: I felt that any woman who loved me couldn't be any good, or she wouldn't want me. Now I think I can build a real marriage, and I think I am. And now, I can play what people want me to-but I play...
Arthur E. Sutherland, professor of Law, and Robert G. McCloskey, associate professor of Government, have come out in favor of legislation that would give Brownell as Attorney General the power to grant immunity. If a witness then refused to testify, he could face imprisonment for contempt of Congress. This plan was suggested by Brownell for the first time yesterday at the National Press Club...