Word: contemptibly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...higher court ordered the four intransigent magistrates, who had stymied the budget, to approve it forth with or face jail for contempt. By week's end the rebels had spent 17 days in jail without a sign of surrender." Each day, some of their fellow jurists and as many as 1,000 of their admiring constituents fed them cakes and chicken through the bars. Having filed a federal suit asking for their freedom, the prisoners patiently waited and happily feasted...
...that situation is no more startling than its parallel paradox: the casting of doubt on such formidable Christian doctrines as Original Sin and the Virgin Birth, on the Trinity and the Resurrection, has made many men consider - or reconsider - them not with scorn but with respect, not with contempt but with intellectual curiosity...
Principal problem: how to get rid of Ky's tough but tactless security chief, Brigadier General Nguyen Ngoc Loan, 35, who last month offended the Southerners by nabbing one of their number, and seldom bothers to conceal his contempt for the Southern group as a whole-or any other critics of Ky. Loan, like Ky, is a Northerner who went south after the 1954 partition. The two were fellow pilots in the Vietnamese air force, and when Ky took power last year, he promptly asked Loan to be his director of national security...
...pain of disbarment or jail for contempt, the A.B.A. proposals would forbid police, prosecutors, defense lawyers and judicial employees to make any out-of-court statement on the accused's prior criminal record or make public other information that might influence the outcome of his trial. The blackout would cover the entire period from arrest to verdict-a period that sometimes lasts for years...
Like so. When the hero (a full-blooded Oriental introduced by Allen as Phil Moscowitz) slugs a thug, he calls him nasty names: "Spartan dog! Roman swine! Spanish fly!" When he meets the villain, an egg-salad addict named Shepherd Wong, he expresses his contempt for a man with "a chicken on his back," and informs him sternly that "two Wongs don't make a White." And the villain, when he dies, gasps hysterically: "Don't let me be embalmed. I want to be stuffed with crabmeat...