Word: contempts
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...this Sturm und Drang, puts his brown-and-tan saddle shoes up on the desk in his cramped fifth-floor office at the Post and shrugs off all the fuss: "The networks don't think they should be written about. They have the lowest form of contempt for TV critics...
Other academics were not as fortunate, however. Marcus Singer, a former Harvard Zoology instructor, was convicted of contempt of Congress and sentenced to a suspended three-month jail term and a $100 fine. Dirk J. Struik, an MIT mathematics professor, was indicated for conspiring to overthrow the government of the United States and of Massachusetts. After four years of waiting, the court finally dismissed the indictment...
McCarthy's anti-Harvard fervor brought him to Boston to testify against several Harvard faculty members indicted on grounds of contempt of Congress by the McCarthy subcommittee. The faculty members had refused to answer questions pertaining to Communist activities of members of the University faculty...
...diplomacy in the crisis: The U.S. made great efforts, they bore fruit, and they are continuing. Whether they will bear fruit in the future, I cannot say. The Syrians have a kind of attitude of contempt toward the U.S. and its ambassador. Assad didn't receive the U.S. Ambassador [to Damascus] during the past year, but he did receive the Soviet ambassador. The U.S. has been using the good offices of other nations, and we appreciate that very much...
Somehow they forgot to write a character for him to play. But that's all right -audiences can return the contempt with which Nighthawks was made by forgetting...