Word: contemptibly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...examine Powell's financial records. But subpoenas in noncriminal cases cannot be served on Sunday, the only day Preacher Powell can readily be found in New York. Finally nailed at the end of summer, he nonetheless failed to show up in a state Supreme Court. Rubin then started contempt of court proceedings; once more, Powell ducked court orders until a U.S. marshal caught up with him two months later in Washington. Powell's appearance in court, scheduled for last week, was put off again because President Johnson chose to address Congress that same...
Those whose desire for vengeance overcomes their respect for the legal system share the guilt of Oswald's murderer. Their attitudes encouraged the killing by spreading contempt for orderly judicial procedure. As our society must allow a Lee Oswald his right to speak, so it should have guaranteed him his day in court...
Help! Some of the workers had witnessed the heist, and had stood by passively. Others, who had not seen the stickup, heard the "cop" call to them: "Come here and get this thing going for me." With an instinctive contempt for the law, they replied with derisive hoots. At last, the defeated wheel man jumped from the car and took to his heels. A few blocks off, the other crooks had abandoned the panel truck and presumably had gone elsewhere to rendezvous with the station wagon. But the imprisoned guards, meanwhile, were raising a clamor, and a passer-by called...
...black voice from the white cell was a perfect affirmation, and an affront to the cops--it rang with contempt for them. And then it was brave, and so inspired bravery. There was sudden intense applause, and a thunderous burst of song...
...less compassion for, the problems of the laborer. Franklin D. Roosevelt, the unquestioned champion of the American workingman and a wealthy aristocrat of the first order, would presumably also be considered by Mr. Harold Wilson an "elegant anachronism." I believe such a label would, in fact, be held in contempt by the vast majority of Mr. Wilson's own Labor Party. As can be seen by the example of Mr. Roosevelt or that of Mr. Kennedy, wealth and lineage do not necessarily preclude sensitivity and a sense of equality, as Mr. Wilson would have us believe...