Word: contemptibly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...YORK CITY, March 27--Balladeer Pete Seeger's long-delayed trial for contempt of Congress finally got under way today before Judge Murphy in a U.S. District Court here...
...more aristocratic angle than ever and launched an attack on Macleod. "Rhodesia was the most British, in the fullest sense of that word, of any of the realms and territories of the British Crown. Now, within the space of a few months, those feelings have given way to ... suspicion, contempt, almost hatred of the home government." The "main responsibility" for this state of affairs, he charged, must rest on Macleod, "a man of most unusual intellectual brilliance" but also one who "has been too clever by half." Macleod's trouble, Salisbury suggested with lordly disdain, might...
Pete Seeger '40, began the latest round in his six-year battle against the HUAC today quietly but forcefully stating his belief that the privacy of the individual American's politics is sacred. He is under indictment for contempt of Congress for refusing to answer questions of the Committee...
...Congo's swirling storm is India's Rajeshwar Dayal, U.N. commander in the Congo. Like any man in such a job, he has long had his critics -and their number is increasing. He is not on speaking terms with Congolese President Joseph Kasavubu, scarcely conceals his contempt for Premier Joseph Ileo, and has made little effort to get out and meet the many other bickering faction leaders or to get acquainted with the Congolese people. Although Dayal claims that he has been "spiritually enriched" by the Congo experience, others see him as a bundle of nerves often...
Davis had played with the racists too long to move suddenly without them, and the effort to get a bill foundered in the closing hours of the special session. Cried Extremist Wellborn Jack, of Shreveport: "They're not gonna put you in contempt. They're not gonna have the guts to do it." But Jimmie Davis knew something about Bobby Kennedy's guts. At week's end, with the legislature on its way home, he found some extra money in a special fund and earmarked it to pay the New Orleans teachers...