Word: abhor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Italians will not fight well in World War II, the Packards conclude, because: 1) they have had little fighting tradition since the fall of the Roman Empire; 2) they abhor regimentation; 3) the military services, particularly the air force, are rotten with party politics and inefficiency; 4) their equipment is uniformly poor...
Latin-Americans never disliked North Americans as a people, but did heartily abhor many of their policies, according to Dr. David Vila, professor of Ethnology at the University of Guatemala, newspaper man, and good-will ambassador sent by the Nelson Rockefeller Officer of Pan-American affairs...
...vote seemed necessary because, whatever may be said against Churchill or the men around him, few Britons can imagine anyone else leading Britain through the war. Moreover, among those few are hard-shell Tories who abhor Britain's alliance with Russia and would like to restore post-war Britain as a Tory paradise. Most of Parliament was determined to give them no encouragement...
This rebuttal for Society is itself not without a trace of snobbery. The strongest curse the authors place on the magazine they abhor is that it should be read only by the cook. C. K. Dexter Haven shows his broad mind to Tracy by admitting: "You could marry Mac, the night watchman, and I'd cheer you." The parvenu coal executive is first ridiculed because his riding habit is new and clean "like something right out of a store window." Contempt for his kind is expressed by Haven's: "A splendid chap, very high morals, very broad shoulders...
...stiff dead Italian soldiers on bleak slopes and in forested ravines from Porto Edda, where many of them had landed, northeastward to Lake Ochrida and the east-west gorges of the Shkumin River, where Italian commanders strove to make a stand against the relentless, amazing Greeks. Most Italians abhor cold as they do the sharp Greek bayonet, which Rome last week plaintively called a "barbaric and inhuman" weapon...