Word: contemptibly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Like other Republican liberals he has never been an organization man. Not that he has contempt for professionals: he favors "the old pros" like Ohio's Bliss ("he's done quite a job") for the leadership of the National Committee. But he feels that theirs is a service function, "not a policy making one," and policy is the area he obviously prefers. He enjoys the Senate less as a legislative factory than as a forum where he can say what he believes and be heard...
...Buonaparte," he said, "won at Austerlitz and lost at Waterloo. Malaparte loses at Austerlitz and wins at Waterloo." I knew him from 1925 until his death, and even wrote a "fictitious reminiscence" about him. I can assure you that the hatred and contempt were of his last writing period alone and never in his personal relations...
...strange contempt proceeding that threatened Negro voting throughout Mississippi, but it should have been no surprise. Once on the bench in a state where only 5% of adult Negroes are registered to vote, Judge Cox, 63, has consistently refused to find any pattern of discrimination. Moreover, he has filled trial transcripts in rights cases with gratuitous obiter dicta. At a hearing last March, he referred to a Negro voting registration drive as "grandstanding"; he repeatedly described 200 applicants as "a bunch of niggers" and called them "chimpapzees" who "ought to be in the movies rather than being registered to vote...
With tears in his eyes, the towering Mississippi-born Hauberg "most humbly" refused on direct orders of Acting Attorney General Katzenbach. "I do judge you to be in civil contempt," intoned Cox, ordering Hauberg to jail "until you decide to comply." Cox then ordered Katzenbach "to show cause why he should not be adjudged guilty of contempt."* Irreparable Damage. Faced with an unprecedented challenge, the Justice Department last week petitioned the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals for a writ of prohibition against Cox's order on the ground that the U.S. Attorney General has sole authority for initiating...
...name (and later as his own name). "Buonaparte," he said, "won at Austerlitz and lost at Waterloo. Malaparte loses at Austerlitz and wins at Waterloo." I knew him from 1925 until his death, and even wrote a "fictitious reminiscence" about him. I can assure you that the hatred and contempt were of his last writing period alone and never in his personal relations...