Word: abhor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Instead of waking us to new thought and new freedom, they have made us, even those of us most enthusiastic at the outset, reflect on the kinds of thoughts that really do threaten us, things we abhor considering. Thoughts of preserving the system--where classes and dormitory rooms are open to anyone--instead of changing it. Mr. Collins's gang says if kids don't want them in class to "get involved" and "make" them leave. But we don't like to be forced into police committees. We catch our talk of "outsiders" and "disruption" and it reminds...
...Pacifica Radio in California, was also charged by the Anti-Defamation League with anti-Semitic broadcasting. It was the judgment of the Commission that "the public interest is best served by presenting any views that are not a clear and present danger and evil . . . free speech that we abhor and hate is as legal as that which find congenial...
...preaches the need for regular work. "I abhor this 'laisser-aller' attitude," she says, "that allows students the convenience of cramming and spurts of concentration!" If you have no other time to work, she once suggested, get up at seven...
...context of the unfortunate reference was this. I said that although many students are unhappy and feel unwilling to tolerate social and political conditions as they find them in this country and although they abhor the war and are impatient with the slow progess the nation is making in correcting racial injustice and eliminating poverty, the large majority of our students do not feel that the way to correct these ills is to disrupt the University. I went on to say that the student body is made up of perceptive and reasonable people, that it is my belief that only...
...other side of the coin is that to many fans good pitching means dull baseball. Some may appreciate perfection, but more abhor monotony. Already this season there have been 176 shutouts in the majors-including 44 games with 1-0 scores-and attendance around the big leagues is down 4% from 1967. "I'm tired of 1-0 games myself," says the Angels' Fregosi, whose suggested remedy for baseball's power failure is to eliminate the mound and make pitchers throw out of a waist-deep hole...