Word: contempts
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...high French Alpine village, Corinne Audal has lived for two years with an expatriate young Austrian ski instructor. Daughter of one French army officer and wife of another, she has given up her family and her marriage and stood up proudly to the criticism and contempt of the conservative villagers, all to win and keep Ferdl Eder's "blond alien flesh." Eder had lost his country when Hitler took Austria. When he wanted to visit his family in Austria, he had to apply for a German passport. To Corinne his act seemed a compromise with Hitlerism and a betrayal...
...Congress also held several investigations, one of which brought contempt citations to ten Hollywood writers and producers who refused to answer a question...
...another decision, the Supreme Court upheld, in effect, the investigating powers of the House Un-American Activities Committee. It refused to review an appeal by Communist Leon Josephson, convicted of contempt of Congress for refusing to testify before the committee last March...
...wrote poetry for his beautiful neighbor, Fraulein Jenny von Westphalen, who, whenever she read one of his poems, "burst into tears of joy and melancholy." Sample: "If we can but weld our souls together, then with contempt I shall fling my glove in the world's face; then I, a creator, shall stride through the wreckage...
...they had, would it have been Fascism. They did not think it was necessary for the commanding officer to be a Henry Wallace. They wanted to finish their 25 missions and go home. They were young, bewildered, touchy, quarrelsome, dangerous. They had a latent envy, mixed with suppressed contempt, for the men who (like the narrator of The Gesture) had been grounded, and might have flown again but did not. When they came back from a mission, with several planes missing, they walked awkwardly through the sweat-filled briefing room in their coveralls and heavy boots, and "talked in small...