Word: contempts
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Committee can survive and even prosper without the full thrust of nationwide McCarthyism. Congressmen are scared to oppose the committee because they know such a move would cost them ten-fold the number of votes they might gain. The courts, while increasingly unwilling to convict uncooperative HUAC witnesses of contempt, are even less willing to pass judgment on HUAC constitutionality -- for fear that in so doing they would spur a major confrontation between Congress and the judiciary over the separation-of-powers issue...
Other action against the HUAC subpoenas will include sit-ins in Washington by Women's Strike for Peace directed by Dagmar Wilson, who was once cited for contempt of court in a HUAC hearing...
...chilled Apfelsaft (apple juice). He left his newly acquired sweetheart at the roadside, but kept an admiring eye on her sleek curves while he sipped. Next to Wacker stood Josef Beinert, 35, a balding, bull-necked gas-station attendant, who soon made it clear that he had nothing but contempt for Wacker's beloved. Words led to shoves, shoves to disaster: Wacker whipped out a revolver and shot Beinert dead. "I love my Mercedes," explained Wacker in court. "I couldn't bear to have somebody insult...
...they had finally discovered their quarry in mid-"walkabout." Abos, after all, spend their lives on the prowl in the wastes beyond the Great Dividing Range, running down witchetty grubs and wallabies from Birdsville to Alice Springs. When intercepted, the abos tended to be surly, not because of any contempt for civilized counting procedures, but because a 1901 constitutional amendment demands that they be tallied not as "people of the Commonwealth" but rather as part of the natural resources...
...without probable cause." Sobeloff stressed a key reason for the decision: "Lack of respect for the police is conceded to be one of the factors generating violent outbursts in Negro communities." And he pointedly quoted the late Justice Louis D. Brandeis: "If the Government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy...