Word: contempts
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...victim of his own impulses, which led him into many squalid crimes, not all of them mentioned in the official charge sheet. There ought to be compassion for a doomed criminal, but no support for any myth about his being a 'martyr,' and nothing but contempt for those who try to encourage such a myth...
Against his disgraceful background of contempt for the moral and legal foundations of this democracy, the offenses of the Albany Movement leaders seem trivial technicalities. Yet it is they whom the Government has decided to pursue; the nearly countless instances of police brutality have not attracted the Attorney General's attention. They are not, apparently, "matters of serious Federal legal concern." Governors Wallace and Barnett remain firmly in office despite flagrant contempt of the Federal courts...
...circumstances, it seemed reasonable to employ unskilled elderly people who are having a hard time finding jobs." The Southern's move was particularly galling to the Brotherhood because until four weeks ago its constitution prohibited Negroes from becoming members. The infuriated union accused Southern of "disrespectful contempt," planned to take its case to court again...
...that defiance of the Supreme Court undermines the basis of our liberal democracy. That democracy rests on consent, and part of that consent is the willingness to fight out issues of this type in a constitutional framework. If the rulings of the Court are to be held in contempt, the whole concept of a government of checks and balances is threatened...
butter head, chili bowl, ditty bob. Terms of contempt, used to refer to Negroes whose behavior embarrasses other Negroes...