Word: contempts
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...enemies list." Indeed, you should be: being considered an enemy implies being a worthy opponent. I, for one, am sorry that the author of the Peninsula article chose to put you on that list. After reading your so-called editorial, the only thing I feel for you is contempt...
...Starr, the Whitewater special prosecutor. Clinton replied, "I've given no consideration" to pardons; then he described in some detail the procedure he would follow if he did. That struck some columnists as dangling the prospect of a pardon in front of Susan McDougal, who has been jailed for contempt because she refused to answer Starr's questions as to whether the President testified truthfully (on videotape) at her trial...
...kind of insider Establishment populist, attacking "elites," meaning the media and intellectuals emerging as the liberal-minded new class of the information age. With the help of White House speechwriters Pat Buchanan and William Safire, Agnew developed a distinctive, jeering speech style that mixed some heavy fun into the contempt...
...husband in Abigail's Party (1977); two minutes later, he does. The hate-filled wife in Home Sweet Home is an adulterer, but infidelity with her husband's best friend gives the woman no more pleasure than anything else in her sorry life. There is a majestic contempt on display here--loathing raised to an art form...
...such as the appointment (with much student involvement) of Karen Avery as assistant dean of the College, thereby placing a black woman in an important administrative position. These readers were appalled that The Crimson staff accused this same man of convincing "the student body that he held them in contempt to a degree most of us usually reserve for people who have done us some grievous wrong...