Word: contemptibly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...U.N.R. is not yet that was made all too clear in the parliamentary elections last spring, when the "godillots," or foot soldiers, of the general barely managed a one-seat majority in the National Assembly. The U.N.R.'s weakness is directly the result of De Gaulle's contempt for all political parties-even his own. Until Lille, De Gaulle had never permitted Pompidou or any of his ministers to assume direction of the U.N.R...
...There Clayton himself had previously ordered a speedup in the local schools' desegregation, but when Negro children attempted to enter the schools, they were savagely beaten. Judge Clayton bluntly ordered the police to protect the children henceforth and sentenced Strong-arm Constable Grady Carroll to four months for contempt of court. Said one of the lawyers in the courtroom: "You should have seen Carroll's face. The man was just astounded-a Mississippi judge doing this to a Mississippi law officer...
King and three associates were jailed after the U.S. Supreme Court's refusal to re-examine it's earlier 5 to 4 decision upholding their state court conviction for contempt. The charges stemmed from a Good Friday march in 1963, led by King against Birmingham's lunch-counter and rest-room segregation, despite a state court injunction forbidding demonstrations...
...period, most Russians managed to acquire an official self that they presented to all but their closest friends: they were Bolshevized into becoming suspicious, stilted and somber in their dealings with others. Today's less cruel but still existing repression, says Princeton Historian James Billington, "breeds exasperation and contempt more than terror." But if the Russian is somewhat more open now, he is still burdened by what University of Toronto Sociologist Lewis Feuer calls "socialist pessimism": the feeling that frustration, pain and deprivation are in the nature of things and that nothing can be done about them. This attitude...
Although Van Gogh labored diligently to perfect his draftsmanship, he had nothing but contempt for it as an end in itself. "Art," he wrote a friend, "is something not created by hands, but something that wells up from a deeper source out of our soul, and in the cleverness and technical knowledge with regard to art, I find something that reminds me of what in religion one would call self-righteousness." As a Dutch preacher's son preparing for the Protestant ministry, he taught himself to draw the dour peasants and bleak countryside almost as a form of spiritual...