Word: contemptibly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Newton is serving a two-to-15-year sentence for manslaughter. Cleaver, arrested after a shoot-out with police in Oakland, jumped bail a year ago and turned up last month in Algiers. Chairman Bobby Seale, one of the Chicago Eight, was sentenced to four years in jail for contempt last month by Judge Julius Hoffman. In the past two weeks, with bloody police raids on Panther centers in Chicago and Los Angeles, the war between police and Panthers has come to a climax. For the first time, these events brought cries of sympathy from moderate black leaders who once...
...STATE OF MAINE has never been exactly famous for being in the vanguard of secondary-school education. It was not long ago that the spotlight of ridicule and contempt fell on the eastern coastal town of Blue Hill when school officials prevented valedictorian Russell Salsbury from delivering his prepared valedictory address at graduation exercises. The reason given was that the young man's ideas "sounded pink" and seemed "dangerous." The incident received much publicity both inside and outside the state; I myself, as a Maine native, entered publicly into the fray. As it turned out, young Salsbury came to Harvard...
Though Mao is well educated, he retains a country boy's contempt for intellectuals, for learning and for city ways. "The more one reads, the more foolish one becomes" is one of his favorite adages. "Being an unpolished man," he says, not without pride, "I am not too cultivated." Doctors are a frequent butt: "Medical education needs reforming. There is altogether no need to read so many books. How long did it take Hua T'o [the father of Chinese medicine] to learn what he knew?" Mao, who has succeeded in destroying the Chinese educational system in order...
Although most demonstrators were willing to risk arrest for trespassing, they agreed to follow the injunction after it was issued to avoid jail sentences for contempt of court...
...students decided to leave as soon as the injunction was served because violation of the court order would have made them liable to jail sentences for contempt of court, one OBU member said...