Word: contempts
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...Already part of the household are Lucasta Angel, his illegitimate daughter, and B. (for Barnabas) Kaghan, a foundling whom Lucasta plans to marry. Lady Elizabeth too, in her youth, had an illegitimate son whom she lost all trace of; and being a woman with a flutter-brained, highhanded contempt for facts, she decides that Colby is her son, not Sir Claude...
...Americans and one Briton made a shabby showing last week as they received the press in the "Peace Pagoda" at Panmunjom. They were poor trophies for any ideology. Twelve had previously earned the contempt of their fellow prisoners by acting as camp informers for their Red masters. Two were marijuana smokers, another was homosexual. Their average age was 23½ more than half came from broken or unhappy homes...
...survey found that "quite a few of them attribute that policy not so much to the reasons of justice as to the need for avoiding the advance and penetration of Communism." On the favorable side, the survey noted: "However, the Spanish worker does not have a feeling of contempt for religion; he has instead a foundation of religious conscience that makes possible its revival...
...done wrong, he should be punished. But the evidence against him should be produced and evaluated by a proper court in a fair trial Neither torture nor an oath nor the threat of punishment such as imprisonment for contempt should be used to compel him to provide the evidence to accuse or to convict himself...
...that if Furry and Kamin refused to tell the Massachusetts Commission the names of communists known to them and yet did not invoke the fifth amendment, under which witnesses may refuse to testify on the grounds of possible self-incrimination they would be reported to the state legislature for contempt action...