Word: contemptibly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...discussion of the case by the principals. Last week, with the trial of Martin Luther King's alleged assassin still more than a month away, Battle made it clear that he meant what he said. He not only found Ray's lawyer and private detective guilty of contempt, but he issued contempt citations against two Memphis newsmen...
Second: the Corporation of Harvard College both in part and in entirety REFUSES to communicate in any sort of dialogue with the people of the City of Cambridge. The Corporation even refuses to speak to the City Council of the City of Cambridge. These refusals are acts of snobbish contempt against the permanent residents of the City...
...stage a silent protest against the hearings. Police ushered them out without resistance. No immediate arrests were made, although the subcommittee chairman, Rep. Richard Ichord, (D-Mo.) warned the protestors they could be charged with trying to disrupt Congress. He told their attorneys they could be cited for contempt...
...Actual Threats. Tennessee's law had been tested in the courts only once, but in that case the jailing of a witness had been upheld because he had balked at testifying and had been declared in contempt of court. By contrast, Stephens had been a cooperative witness. His lawyers argued that there was no reason to believe that he would not testify; there had been no actual threats on his life. Taking the case to a Memphis Circuit Court, Gipson and Friedman won a plea for a writ of habeas corpus on the grounds that Stephens had been denied...
...resources to baffle, stymie and frustrate their occupiers. The campaign was directed and inspired by radio stations that continued to operate secretly throughout the country?reportedly with transmitters provided by the Czechoslovak army?after the Russians had shut down the regular government transmitters. "We have no weapons, but our contempt is stronger than tanks," proclaimed one such station near Bratislava. The station suggested that its listeners "switch around street signs, take house numbers from the doors, remove nameplates from public buildings and, when a Soviet soldier asks you something, say that you don't understand Russian...