Word: contemptibly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...angry liberal in the ideological sense. He was in fact a pretty conservative fellow. But he did not like to see little people pushed around. It was that simple with him. He didn't care what color the little people were. He held in utter contempt those political poses designed to conceal social brutalities in a region that deserved better leadership, and he didn't scare...
...Mutual Contempt. For all the Red Chinese harassment, Premier Kosygin promised last week that Russia would "not be the first" to sever diplomatic relations. "It all depends on the other side," he added. Instead, the Russians impugned China's worth as a true Communist nation by spelling out for the first time China's activities in blocking the flow of Soviet arms to Viet Nam. "Abusing the geographical situation," charged Izvestia, "Mao Tse-tung and his group use every means to try to break transportation lines between the U.S.S.R. and North Viet...
According to leaflets distributed in Peking, Mao Tse-tung alerted frontier troops, warning them that the Soviet Union was reinforcing its military strength along the Chinese border for possible anti-Chinese moves. The contempt with which each side now regards the other was nowhere better illustrated than along the Sino-Soviet border in Sinkiang province. There, according to a Japanese correspondent who recently visited the region, Chinese border troops insulted the "revisionists" by hauling down their trousers and flaunting their backsides at the Soviets across the frontier. The Chinese "provocation" ceased when the Russians held up a portrait...
...World Council of Churches, Dibelius was devoutly evangelical as well as Evangelical. In his sermons he preached his conviction that the Gospel was genuinely God's everlasting, ever-valid word to man. "Lord My God," he wrote in his autobiography, "Your word preserved me from skepticism and contempt, those characteristics of an age alienated from...
...Homecoming Vivien plays temptress and tigress, an enigmatic queen of the snarling jungle in her in-laws' house. Her hooded hazel eyes crinkle with bemusement, sag in boredom, flash with killing contempt or sexual electricity. Her fellow actors are all members in high standing of Britain's Royal Shakespeare Company, but it is Vivien who overpowers them all as the household whore-mother...