Word: disrespectful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From that day of creation in May, 1938, the house Committee on un-American activities has been violently raked by critics of its methods. Opponents have charged, among other things, that witnesses have been handled with disrespect, and that various individuals have used the fair name of the committee for personal benefit. Chairman Dies, of course, always denied these allegations with heat. In 1938, he himself denounced "the old kind of investigation that would go after somebody only for cheap publicity." As for cashing-in on the fame of his group, Dies said that he always gave the money...
...Disrespect in the Soles. Two of the chief mourners on the duck which bore Gandhi's ashes were Jawaharlal Nehru and Vallabhbhai Patel, both clad in white dhotis, both barefoot. The two men on whom India's hopes were now pinned-the gentle, philosophical Nehru, who agreed with Gandhi's policy of conciliation toward Moslems, and the hard man of action Patel, no conciliator-seemed united in grief and respect for Gandhi's wishes. Their first step had been to strike at the extremist communal organizations, Hindu and Moslem, which had been fomenting religious hatred...
...best tolerated strangers. In recent months R.S.S.S. recruits (beginning at eight years of age) have been drilled to hate Congress leaders. One exercise was to smash pictures of Gandhi. Another: to wear pictures of Gandhi and Nehru on the inner soles of their shoes, a supreme mark of disrespect...
...current object of Tilden's dislike is Big Jake Kramer, whose disrespect for ex-greats is "apparently quite typical of modern youth in many fields." (Kramer says that Tilden dislikes him because, when Jake was 17, he blasted Tilden off the court in a practice match.) Tilden rates Bobby Riggs today's best player...
...written to his fiancée-and one to her father. Portrait of an anxious-to-please son-in-law-to-be: "I wrote you [the father] and Mrs. Langdon a letter . . . which will offend again, I fear-and yet, no harm was meant, no undue levity, no disrespect, no lack of reverence. The intent was blameless-and it is the intent...