Word: contempts
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...From the visual put-down of depicting us as flat, two-dimensional beings existing on cigarettes and ersatz food to the condescension slightly tinged with apprehension of the article, you show clearly the mild contempt of the self-anointed intellectual aristocracy for the stupid middle-class geese who lay the golden eggs of taxes and keep our country running...
...SPEECH. A sad study-seen from within the bosom of a lifetime New Statesman contributor-of the hatred and contempt a professional leftist holds for the "workers" she would nudge to the barricades...
After accusing Lavan of plundering estates entrusted to him by the probate court, Turner wrote in April 1968, that Lavan "has almost totally corrupted the entire judicial system in Livingston County." For this and a similar outburst, Turner was convicted of contempt of court, sentenced to 15 days in jail, and fined $150. But the other side did not escape unscathed. After Bar Association investigations, Lavan resigned from the bar, and six other members of the county bar (including judges, former judges and prosecutors) were punished for misconduct. Moreover, the State Supreme Court issued stricter state bar and probate court...
...draft new legislation that would set tougher fines for pollution ($5,000 for a first offense) and empower the attorney general to sue governmental agencies. Under the laws, an offender would have to abide by a court-enforced schedule for installing anti-pollution equipment-or be held in contempt...
...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...