Word: contemptibly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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November--Sen. McCarthy calls Furry before his committee in New York. Furry, in his third appearance before a Congressional hearing, refuses to answer questions under the protection of the fifth amendment, McCarthy threatens him with contempt of Congress procedings...
...January--Furry, testifying for the fourth time, changes tactics. He does not use the fifth amendment although he refuses to answer some questions. Kamin also refuses to answer questions relating to friends who had been Communists and, like Furry, doesn't take the fifth. McCarthy again threatens procedings for contempt...
...therefore enraged when town and county cops turned their backs while whites beat and otherwise harassed civil rights marchers in Bogalusa a couple of weeks ago. Christenberry cited Bogalusa's Public Safety Commissioner Arnold Spiers, Police Chief Claxton Knight, and Patrolman Donald Penton for civil contempt of court. Last week, during hearings, the judge was further enraged to see films of Bogalusa demonstrations which showed whites waving Confederate flags everywhere. "Except on the post office, are there any American flags there anywhere?" he asked. When some courtroom spectators laughed, Christenberry went on: "This is a serious business. Every picture...
...Djakarta, his first ambassadorial assignment, he replaces genial Howard P. Jones, whose seven years of effort to win over Sukarno with tolerant understanding did not deter the Bung from continuing to heap contempt and ridicule on the U.S. Whether a blunter approach will bear fruit is anyone's guess. The U.S. sympathizes with Malaysia, but would like to cling to some friendly ties with Indonesia, however tenuous. Sukarno may be angry at the latest U.S. loan to Malaysia for military equipment, but the Malaysians of late have been equally miffed by the proposed sale of $4,000,000 worth...
...cultivated Jews, living in world-weary isolation behind the walls of their vast estate, which survives like a verdant enclave in the provincial city of Ferrara. Father Ermanno is an aging scholar-gentleman who has passed his life in obscure antiquarian studies, and who regards the Fascists with courtly contempt. Mother Olga is an aristocratic wraith who lives only to mourn the death of her six-year-old child. Son Alberto is a languid dilettante. Daughter Micol is a beautiful, spirited intellectual who cannot bring herself to escape the family's fortress of unreality...