Word: disrespectful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...subcommittee's words for it. Army Secretary Robert Ten Broeck Stevens (or his Defense Department superiors), said the report, should be "criticized for the delay of almost one year before the facts concerning the Peress case were publicly released." It added that former Army Counselor John Adams showed "disrespect for this subcommittee" when he chose to disregard a request from Wisconsin's Senator Joe McCarthy that Peress' discharge be held up. Then the subcommittee listed 48 instances of snarled red tape: e.g., "the failure of Major Stambaugh, G2, First Army, upon receipt of Peress' DD Form...
Since then, Perón's police have arrested scores of priests and hundreds of Catholic laymen for showing "disrespect," distributing Catholic reading matter or taking part in Catholic demonstrations. His Congress has passed measures that 1) legalize divorce, 2) forbid outdoor religious gatherings, 3) banish religious instruction from public schools, 4) wipe out the tax exemptions of religious institutions, 5) call for election of a national assembly to cut away the constitution's provisions linking the government and the Catholic Church...
...Crow schools. Of 1,000 Texans sampled, 45% said they favored maintaining segregation either by disobeying the law or finding a way to circumvent it. In other words, said the poll, any attempt at immediate integration will "stir up a storm of protest in Texas verging on public disrespect...
...government has cut its subsidies to church schools to a trickle, dismissed dozens of priests from posts as teachers and chaplains, fired scores of government officials who belonged to laymen's associations. The police have banned numerous Catholic gatherings, arrested at least 13 priests on vague charges of "disrespect." Congress has slapped the church in the face by legalizing divorce and prostitution and banning traditional outdoor religious processions. At times it appeared that Peron wanted to call a truce, but after each lull the harassment began anew...
...provisions: ¶ The words "horror" and "terror" are not permitted as comic-book titles, and no "scenes of horror, excessive bloodshed, gory or gruesome crimes, depravity, lust, sadism or masochism" are allowed. ¶ Sympathy for criminals, "unique details" of a crime, or any treatment that tends to "create disrespect for established authority" are banned. ¶ "Profanity, obscenity, smut, vulgarity, ridicule of racial or religious groups" are not allowed, and "all characters shall be depicted in dress reasonably acceptable to society, [with] females drawn realistically without exaggeration of any physical qualities...