Word: contemptibly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...British press is as censored as most censored presses, though in an arbitrary and indeterminate way. We employ on the Mirror and [Sunday] Pictorial three fulltime and eleven part-time barristers to avoid printing libels, breaches of parliamentary privilege, breaches of the Official Secrets Acts, or committing contempt of court. Over the years, the area of operation of these newspaper hazards has been steadily widened until criticism of any kind is becoming impossibly risky...
...Jouhaud desire the collapse of the O.A.S. himself. DeGaulle's offer can only be met by increased slaughter and violence. Hopefully de Gaulle will reassert his authority--he cannot leave any doubt as to who is master in Algeria. As it stands, his offer will be greeted by the contempt of the O.A.S.; Algeria will suffer further bloodshed and violence...
...year-old conviction of Peter Seeger '40 for contempt of Congress was unanimously dismissed by the U.S. Court of Appeals in New York Friday. Seeger was indicated for refusal to answer questions in a hearing conducted by a sub-committee of the House Un-American Activities Committee...
...vote. In Forrest County, Miss., the Rev. John Miles Barnes, a Negro with a tenth-grade education, who has tried to register several times a year for the past eleven years, tried again last week. He failed. Voting Registrar Theron C. Lynd, who has already been cited for contempt for failing to obey a federal court order, asked Barnes to copy and interpret a section of the Mississippi constitution. Lynd was, as usual, dissatisfied with the result. According to the Justice Department, other Negroes found illiterate by Lynd include five college graduates, one of whom was a National Science Foundation...
...wrote in an article about Czar Nicholas I, "he bullies Europe, and pushes his demands as far as possible . . . If, at the outset, [England and France] had proved that bluster and swagger could not impose on them, the Autocrat would have for them a very different feeling from that contempt which must now animate his bosom...