Word: contemptibly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...also a lifelong economic technician without political experience, who took the job "without joy," is less likely to stir up Cabinet debates than Pinay. His appointment was a clear sign of the way the De Gaulle government is trending. Fired up once again with his old contempt for "political games," De Gaulle was steadily cleansing his government of men with independent political strength, replacing them with technicians who are able-but technicians...
...never occurs to him to stay out of trouble. He is not amoral, except from an adult viewpoint. He follows the rules of juvenile society as if they had been relayed to him by Moses, but the only forces he recognizes are the intense pressures of youthful adulation and contempt...
...honorable judges of the Federal District Court for eastern Michigan are hereby given notice," thundered Detroit's evening News (circ. 468,540). "They will shortly have to bring contempt proceedings against the editor of the Detroit News." Whereupon it tried to give the court a chance to do so by running an account of a civil-damage suit in apparent defiance of a court order suppressing the record of the case...
Instead of finding the newspapers in contempt, Judge Levin merely issued a statement observing that they were not. The stories published about the suit did not come from court records-as the papers themselves admitted-but from sources over which the court had no control. While holding to the suppression of the record at this time, Levin said that all hearings on the case will be held in open court...
Thus left without a cause, the Free Press and the Times were inclined to drop the subject. But not the News, which was still troubled by the court's "inherent right" claim. "We learn with regret: we're not in contempt," it editorialized last week. "We will try to violate the suppression rule to the judge's satisfaction, and thus get the question on the proper road to settlement by a higher court...