Word: contempts
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...irresponsible fanatics in this province who speak with contempt of the British achievements," warned Vanier, "are rendering a dreadful disservice to their compatriots. There is no surer way of drawing on the head of this province the hatred and violence of the other eight [English-speaking provinces]. Such men will bear a terrible responsibility if they succeed in loosing this flood which might engulf...
...high as 140,000 and pay the heavy upkeep on Editor Enrique P. Osés, whose salary was $1,500 a month, plus fat expenses covering such items as an eight-man bodyguard. Additional expenses were incurred through Pampero's 58 suits for libel, calumny, contempt, slander, vilification, defamation, extortion, and once for repairs to Pampero's offices after a fed-up crowd had wrecked them...
...judge in the Elizabeth (Red Network) Dilling divorce case cited Mrs. Billing for contempt for the sixth time, fined her $50, promised her jail if it happened again...
...preface to one of these 16 short plays William Saroyan compares himself to George Bernard Shaw. The comparison is not altogether presumptuous. He shares with Shaw a fearless, sassy gaiety, and like Shaw he holds naturalism, heavyminded-ness and the theater in general in contempt. Both, in Saroyan's words, believe that the theater "all theater-should be fun. . . ." Whatever else they are, these plays and prefaces...
...Vichy's neutrality. Answering Pétain's protest over U.S. recognition of the Free French De Gaullist regime in French Equatorial Africa and the Cameroons, the U.S. had allowed itself the rare diplomatic luxury of speaking frankly. Said the U.S. note: "(A) handful of Frenchmen ... in contempt for the high tradition of liberty and individual freedom which has made France great, have sordidly and abjectly, under the guise of 'collaboration,' attempted to prostitute their country to that very regime in Germany which is bent upon nothing else than the permanent enslavement of France...