Word: contemptibility
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Many A.P. Sophomores expressed contempt for the lower level General Education requirement. "I think that if one must go and get a liberal education it's better to take real courses instead of these watered-down fakes," one responded
...They later turned the money over to the state.) When a Senate committee pressed him for the details, Maurice was as untalkative as ever: he ducked 18 questions without bothering to invoke the Fifth Amendment. Last May, Hutcheson was fined $500 and sentenced to six months in jail for contempt of Congress. Last week, his troubles multiplying like wood shavings, Maurice and Carpenters' Vice President O. William Blaier were sentenced to 2 to 14 years, fined $250, and stripped of their right to vote or hold public office for five years. When he heard the verdict, Maurice, as usual...
...Lagos embassy immediately, Abubakar bluntly told him: "As a diplomat, you must understand that things are not done that way. You must submit an application for diplomatic relations, and we shall judge it on its merits.") Above all, the extremists are shocked that Abubakar can barely conceal his contempt for showboating Kwame Nkrumah and his schemes for Pan-African unification, instead urges that for the time being, African cooperation be limited to such practical steps as technical and cultural exchanges, a common U.N. front and, perhaps, economic agreements...
...Ghana's contempt for its bigger Johnny-come-lately rival, Nigeria, less than two months after winning its independence, is on its way to becoming one of the major forces in Africa. Nigeria's dynamic U.N. Ambassador Jaja Wachuku is chairman of Dag Hammarskjold's Congo Conciliation Commission. A number of African nations, notably those of the French Community, are beginning to sidle up to Nigeria in visible relief at the emergence of a counterweight to the firebrands of Ghana and Guinea. And Abubakar himself has begun the wheeling and dealing abroad expected of a sovereign nation...
...committee to inquire into subversion in 1953, the Attorney-General demanded that the New Haven minister hand over the names of guests who visited the summer camp where he directed conferences on peace. Uphaus refused, and in 1956 the state Superior Court cited him for civil contempt by a close 3-2 decision, with a minority which objected that "on a record such as this so slim a semblance of pertinency is not enough to justify inquisition violative of the First Amendment...