Word: abhor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...regular Kansas Republicans make their moves slowly; they abhor violent change. Stunned by Hall's ax-wielding and pro-labor actions, they assessed the situation silently, then began moving Kansas and earth to throw the upstart out. Hall's right-to-work veto drew the wrath of the powerful Kansas City Star; his purge of old friends in the State Civil Service Board brought suspicious frowns; his meddling and muddling in legislative affairs ("I am the governor") stirred deep resentment. When Hall called recalcitrant legislators "s.o.b.s" to their faces during a bitter legislative rhubarb early this year...
...abhor and oppose the subtle, creeping tendencies of all forms of liberalism, moderate republicanism and progressive conservatism...
...even though most responsible military authorities abhor the Chinese atrocities, their Stoic code of conduct asks American prisoners to accept them without flinching. If the code allowed prisoners to sign all confessions demanded in violation of the Geneva Convention, on the other hand, the enemy's incentive for torture would disappear. The Communist captors would receive a plethora of confessions--the same confessions they now extract more painfully. Confessions signed so freely would convince no one who does not already believe the "confessions" Chinese Communists have obtained through unspeakable torture. Prisoners of war already carry too many burdens...
...course, that a conscientious citizen will genuinely entertain more of 'an abhorrence of unrestrained inquiry into beliefs' than of perjury. Yet the Government has constantly inquired into men's beliefs but never until recently did it occur to anyone to abhor...
...biographical pinnacle of the Eisenhower phenomenon presents us with Eisenhower's personal appeal to the voters. But the political and social base of the phenomenon consists of the reluctant conversion of the U.S. business community to the revolution in domestic and foreign policy which it professed to abhor. The conversion may not be completely honest or absolutely complete. But the fact of the conversion has been of great benefit. For in a democracy the crowning triumph of a revolution is its acceptance by the opposition...