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The answer boxes denoting the number of letters in a word was shown with a crossword clue and a dollar value. As the game progressed, a word could have multiple blanks already filled in. After the clue was read, the contestants could ring in, with the order they did so denoted on the screens on the front of their podiums.
HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF THE GULF. New Orleans, May 15, 1862. As the officers and soldiers of the United States have been subject to repeated insults from the women (calling themselves ladies) of New Orleans in return for the most scrupulous non-interference and courtesy on our part, it is ordered that hereafter when any female shall by word, gesture, or movement insult or show contempt for any ...
Contempt can serve a useful purpose in a moral community. An ethics of contempt provides a much larger breadth of answers than other competing systems of ethics, whether they be based on ethics of actions (judging actions by their rightness or wrongness) or ethics of feelings (e.g., ethics of resentment).
Two Crossword rounds were played, each worth $500 and with the bonus square payouts in effect, and each was followed by a four-word Scrabble Sprint. The first Crossword winner set a time for the second one to beat, and the Sprint winner received $1,000 and advanced to a quarterfinal match played on Friday of that week.
Contempt of court is the only remaining common law offence in Canada. Contempt of court includes the following behaviors: Failing to maintain a respectful attitude, failing to remain silent or failing to refrain from showing approval or disapproval of the proceeding; Refusing or neglecting to obey a subpoena
Irony: "A figure of speech in which the intended meaning is the opposite of that expressed by the words used; usually taking the form of sarcasm or ridicule in which laudatory expressions are used to imply condemnation or contempt". [86] "Non-literary irony is often called sarcasm". [87]
The attempted robbery took place just before 5 a.m. on Dec. 9, according to ABC News' Washington affiliate KOMO. It involved a flatbed truck backing into and shattering the front windows of the ...
The investigation was moving towards a predictable conclusion until Esterhazy's former mistress, Madame de Boulancy, published letters in Le Figaro in which ten years earlier Esterhazy had expressed violently his hatred for France and his contempt for the French army. The militarist press rushed to the rescue of Esterhazy with an unprecedented ...