Word: abhor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...will take up Dr. Butler's challenge, we don't know. The result is more likely to be that those whose conduct is in "open conflict" with the pronouncements of the University will take pains to hide the fact; while those who agree with the University's attitude, but abhor restrictions on academic freedom in the name of academic freedom, are more likely to adopt a policy of "watchful waiting" till they can see how the principle is applied in practice. We too are waiting. --The Columbia Spectator
...time is not far away when India . . . will be found in the ranks of our allies," recently boasted Duke Adolf Friedrich of Mecklenburg, head man of the Nazi Colonial League. What the blustering Junker overlooked was the fact that, although Indians have no love for Britain, they universally abhor the Nazi principles of military domination and the German record of ruthless colonial exploitation. For various reasons India wants to keep out of World War II altogether. Mohandas K. Gandhi wants to because the principle of non-violence is dearer to him than freedom itself; the Indian National Congress wants...
...Enough craziness left in me too, underneath all the brilliance! If I had not inherited the knack of order, the trick of saving myself, a whole system of protective devices-where should I be? Madness I loathe-abhor from my soul, beyond all power to utter, hate in my bones all crack-brained geniuses and near-geniuses, all emotionalism, eccentric gesturing and posturing, extravagance! Boldness, yes, audacity, boldness is all, the one indispensable thing - but quiet, decorous, wedded to the proprieties, velvet-shod with irony. That is how I am, that is what I will...
...Quakers abhor intensity of word or deed, believe merely that "the presence of God is an illumination to the soul." When they gather for worship they keep silent, knowing that this "Inner Light" will move them to say what is fitting when it is fitting. (If no one is moved after an hour of quiet, the meeting is over.) Quakers have little ritual, no ordained priesthood. Their societies are organized simply in Preparative Meetings (one or more congregations), Monthly Meetings (one or more Preparative Meetings), Quarterly Meetings (members from several Monthly Meetings), Yearly Meetings (members from several Quarterly Meetings), General...
...been working ever since I was 16, and perhaps that's why I haven't had much of a chance to meet many college boys. I used to abhor Harvard men, I thought them dull and conceited; that is, until I came up here to work at the Ritz roof. Since then I've completely changed my opinion because the boy's were simply swell to me then. Now I've determined that if I ever have a son I'll send him to Cambridge...