Word: contemptibly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...friends and associates. The view of civilization and history regarding such action is best expressed in The Jewish Encyclopedia discussion of Moser, Vol, IX, p, 42: "An informer, denunciator, or delator.... Nothing was more severely punished by the Jews than talebearing; and no one was held in greater contempt than the informer ... the sages of the Talmud compared the moser to a serpent.... The great Talmudist of Lucena, Joseph ibn Migas, caused an informer to be stoned before the close of a certain Day of Atonement which fell on a Sabbath... In the staintes signed by the communities of Catalonia...
...among others, without any reprisal on the part of the Jenner Committee. That is to say, Lubell might have spoken freely about has own past, stated that he is not under Communist direction, and then refused to speak about anyone else. Of course, this subjects him to a possible contempt charge, but there are many lawyers looking for just such a charge with the strong desire of fighting it in the courts...
...approach in his campaign to restore confidence in the State Department. Foreign policy, he argued, must not only be concrete enough to work, it must also be coherent enough for the people to understand. In his congressional relations, he was careful to avoid Acheson's chief personality defect--contempt for the ignorant. During his first seven months in office Dulles gut in 32 appearances before congressional committees, held 58 unofficial meetings with congressional groups...
...asked sarcastically. "What is the significance of the third sentence in the second paragraph of some editorial in a propaganda sheet steered from Moscow? This wholly unimaginative, enfeebled attitude of people who stare like rabbits at a snake, and wait to be devoured-this just fills the Soviets with contempt...
...that better fitted his grand manner and handsome appearance. By the end of his life, he had done such a good job of costumery that he seemed to believe himself a nobly descended Welshman, and the phrase "these English!" uttered with a lordly snort, was his favorite expression of contempt...