Word: contemptibly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...also states that the President must sign the decree. "Even if they get 500 signatures," scoffed De Gaulle, "they'll need the 501st"-i.e., his own. In a word-non. When the Deputies presented their petition, signed by a majority of 287, De Gaulle rejected it with cold contempt. The Deputies, he said, had acted under pressure of the farm lobby, "lacking all qualifications and all political responsibility." A special session of Parliament, Charles de Gaulle wrote to the Assembly president, would not "be compatible with the orderly functioning of the public powers, which I am charged with assuring...
...Caryl Chessman has not sought executive clemency from me," said Governor Brown last October. "To the contrary, he has declared that he seeks only vindication. This I cannot give him. The evidence of his guilt is overwhelming . . . His attitude has been one of steadfast arrogance and contempt." But with his mail running 10 to 1 in favor of sparing Chessman, and with his own conscience nagging at him, Pat Brown, longtime opponent of capital punishment, agonized over the Chessman case as Feb. 19 drew near. Ten hours before Chessman was to die-he had already been taken to a special...
...been white." Since Capital does a "substantial amount of its business in the State of New York." and conducts some 22 pre-employment procedures there, the commission argued that it has jurisdiction. Capital got 30 days in which to hire Patricia Banks as a stewardess or face contempt proceedings in New York courts. Of all the major U.S. airlines, only TWA and Mohawk have hired Negro stewardesses: two all told...
...three years since Suez have clearly not dissipated the distrust of the U.S. and contempt for the U.N. that the crisis evoked in right-wing British breasts. One of Eden's most influential advisers, the stooping, bespectacled Marquess of Salisbury (then Lord President of the Council), scornfully commented: "The fact that other members of the United Nations were not prepared, for whatever reasons, to do their duty [at Suez] was surely no excuse for us not doing ours...
...this is making no friends for Nkrumah. In big (pop. 35 million) Nigeria, Prime Minister Alhaji Sir Abubakar Tafewa Balewa refers to Ghana's leader with scarcely veiled contempt. "I do not know why you attach any importance whatsoever to what Mr. Nkrumah says," he recently snapped to touring British reporters. In Togoland, popular Premier Sylvanus Olympio is even blunter. "The man must be crazy," he says. "Does he really think he can absorb us with his puny bunch of tin soldiers and those two minesweepers he calls a navy...