Word: disrespectful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...kowtow could not attend the I.A.P.A. meeting at all; he had to send in his report. David Michel Torino, owner of Argentina's well-named El Intransigente, was not allowed out of the country by Peron's police. Three years ago he was thrown in jail for "disrespect" of the government. Last September, after his release, an I.A.P.A. representative tried to present Torino with the organization's "Hero of Freedom of the Press" medal. But Argentine police hustled the I.A.P.A. member aboard an outgoing plane as soon as he landed in Argentina...
...your inhuman equation of Senator McCarthy and J. Robert Oppenheimer: I must say that ... I have never read such a sickening . .. and unfeeling . . . piece ... I certainly agree with your opinions on McCarthy, but when you say that Oppenheimer puts his judgment above the law and "he has a basic disrespect for security regulations," it seems to me that you are not only playing partisan Republican politics, but you are submitting yourselves to the . . . greatest degree of misunderstanding...
...defiance of gentle, scholarly Robert Oppenheimer is less noisy, less candid. But the Atomic Energy Commission's Personnel Security Board refused to restore his clearance partly on the ground that he has a basic disrespect for security regulations. (Item: he continues to associate with a man who once tried to pry out of him secret information that the Russians wanted.) McCarthy's friends say that all's fair in the fight against Communism. Oppenheimer's friends say he symbolizes freedom of thought and that his acts are prompted by his loving regard for the long-range...
...East Tennesseans, was highly appreciated in this section . . . You referred to him as the "Terror of Tellico Plains," which reminded me of another Tellico terror: the wild boar of that section, which, pound for pound, is the fiercest fighter of the mountains. Both terrors are scrappers, and with no disrespect to Ray, believe you will note a remarkable likeness in the jut of their jaws [see cuts...
Televiewer Ackerman promptly blew his top at this novel use of Holy Writ. With William A. Chapman, founder of the World Home Bible League, he tore off telegrams to Godfrey and Lipton's: "Shameful, sacrilegious . . . intolerably obnoxious . . . loose disrespect . . . one of the lowest notes in television history...