Word: contemptibly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...contest. It was not surprising that, as in the earlier Congo conflicts, foreign mercenaries were drawn to Biafra to practice their trade: fighting. Nor was it surprising that the beleaguered Biafrans accepted their services-despite the fact that mercenaries can be narrow, violent men who often harbor a deep contempt for Africans. In the midst of the idealism with which Biafra pleaded its cause for independence, the mercenaries have operated-sometimes ugly, certainly anomalous, but perhaps necessary to Biafra's continued survival...
...some respects, Alabama under Wallace became a police state. The climate of order, even today, is such that the FBI has to stand constant guard on the home of Federal Judge Frank Johnson, a notably liberal jurist. Wallace's contempt for his own state's constitution was clear when he ran his wife for Governor, in clear violation of the spirit of a clause
...issue on which we disagree is the capacity of academics, especially Asian scholars, to influence governmental policy. I believe you underestimate the contempt which most working governmental officials have for the opinions of academic specialists who are not working within the government on current events. I really do not see anything any of us academics could have done that would have made much difference on our Vietnam policy even if we had seen the absurdity of the policy and the course it would take with the foresight we now have in hindsight. Did Roger Hillsman or Jim Thomson or even...
From the time that Jefferson becomes champion, he appears to threaten and diminish the white world, in and out of boxing. Corrupt promoters begin scurrying around for a "great white hope" to restore racial supremacy. Full of arrogant self-regard and a casual contempt for blacks as well as whites, Jefferson all too easily stokes the hostility of his foes...
...vegetables, one knew at least that life was hard life was in the flesh and in the massacre of flesh-one breathed the last agonies of beasts." In this setting, in fact, Mailer engages in a bit of butchery of his own. His account seethes with contempt for conventional liberalism and the man who embodies it: the Democratic nominee. "Humphrey simply could not attach the language of his rhetoric to any reality; he was perfectly capable of using the same word, 'Freedom,' let us say, to describe a ward fix in Minneapolis and a gathering of Quakers...