Word: contemptable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...adds there have been new developments. "Up to this point, the violence has been a recurrent thing. The outbursts would last for one or two years and then subside," he says. The current troubles have been going on since 1968, though, and "the amount of hatred and contempt is enormous...
...curious that no one calls anyone else a Byzantine logothete any more. That is what Teddy Roosevelt called Woodrow Wilson; and, while a Byzantine logothete is not the worst thing you can say about someone-it means a glorified accountant-it does suggest a certain largesse of contempt that is missing from modern life. A government official is fired from a high post and he cites "personal differences" with his superior. An actress is savaged in a gossip column, and she "resents" it. Mighty civilized behavior. To be sure, these people do not mean a tepid word they say. Deep...
...English have always been especially adept at this sort of verbal violence, perhaps because they are an island people and have learned to hold familiarity in contempt. Disraeli on Gladstone, for example: "He has not a single redeeming defect." Gladstone, in fact, brought out the best in his antagonist...
Some 30 others were ruled in contempt of court and will be sentenced later. At the same time, federal judges levied fines against the union and its leaders that were piling up at the rate of more than $1 million for each day the strike continued. The union's $3.5 million strike fund was frozen. PATCO was, in effect, broke...
...idea of urban renewal was to level a neighborhood and start afresh. He unhesitatingly displaced 250,000 New York City residents and razed their homes to build highways serving the suburbs. Moses answered critics with contempt. He liked to demand: "If the ends don't justify the means, what does?" Architects reviewing the plans for a building would sometimes discover it had already been erected. Legislators who in 1926 had refused to fund Moses' Moorish-fantasy bathhouses for Jones Beach State Park found he had spent the entire appropriation on the foundations. Moses was fond of saying "Once...