Word: contemptable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...means keeping women in their place. During a civil proceeding, Teitelbaum, 73, threatened Attorney Barbara Wolvovitz with jail because she insisted on referring to herself as Ms. Wolvovitz rather than Mrs. Lobel, after her husband. Protesting in her behalf, Wolvovitz's co-counsel Jon Pushinsky found himself held in contempt and handed a 30-day suspended sentence for "officious intermeddling." When Wolvovitz asked for a mistrial last week, Teitelbaum said, "What if I call you sweetie...
...Government: "Considering how unlike Kennedy Dukakis is, and how little he knew him, and how different their politics are, it is a typically Dukakis answer -- one that reveals absolutely nothing about Michael Dukakis, which is the most revealing thing about it." If anything drove Dukakis into government, it was contempt for the kind of affectionate tales Tip O'Neill tells of the Kennedys in his autobiography -- how, for instance, bribes were paid to potential supporters of Jack. But if he could use the death of Kennedy for a noble purpose, he could, clearly, use the man's life...
...long-running multimedia sensation. Last week the affair was the centerpiece for an extraordinary episode of TV's Phil Donahue show. The one-hour broadcast was shot on location in Brooklyn's Bethany Baptist Church, where Brawley's mother Glenda, 33, had ensconced herself to avoid arrest on a contempt-of-court charge resulting from her refusal to obey a grand-jury subpoena...
Without Brawley's testimony and some additional evidence to support it, it appears that the only person who will be prosecuted in the case is Glenda Brawley, Tawana's mother, who is living in a church to avoid imprisonment on a contempt charge. She refused to respond to a subpoena from a grand jury investigating the case, on the advice of Sharpton, Mason and Maddox...
...Pentagon, defense contractors and the administration "were unabashed in their contempt toward congressional reforms," Boxer said in the Democratic response to President Reagan's weekly radio address...