Word: disrespectful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more serious, Powell has demonstrated in his dealings with the court an unrepentant contempt for judicial process and for the laws which bind the rest of the citizens of this country. Ten different judges have in fact condemned Powell for "monstrous defiance of the law" and "promoting a tragic disrespect for the judiciary...
Once the hub-bub was quieted a local official introduced Kennedy, shyly, as though the very act of introduction was a mark of disrespect. The senator walked forward. A less literal age would have declared that the women, youngest to oldest, swooned when he appeared. Perhaps they did not swoon, but they did lean forward, and clap and some just laughed...
...Healthy Disrespect. In its early editions, the W.R.D. offered a generous mixture of serious articles and scientific humor. Then, after receiving a particularly indignant letter from a famous scientist who complained that he had read most of a "technical" report before recognizing it as satire, McConnell decided to make a more obvious separation between types of articles. Humorous contributions are now printed upside down in the back half of the W.R.D. (or right side up in the front half, if you happen to open it from the back), along with a topsy-turvy back cover. This repositioning has caused...
...economic burden not touched by our present criminal enforcement machinery and falling primarily on those already living on the fringes of desperation. And, particularly if we were to look into the reasons these people do not report their victimization, we might also be better able to understand the deep disrespect of many citizens toward our system...
...tastelessness and irresponsibility of TIME'S cynical report on the South Viet Nam immolations are repugnant. Such disrespect for individual human lives is not justified, despite the war's wholesale destruction of human life...