Word: abhor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Seventeen people, including Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn and several journalists and student leaders, said yesterday that they "abhor and condemn" any such attempt "to infringe upon the constitutional rights of all those participating to publicly express their views...
...only credit the genuine concern for justice and due process demonstrated by Bok and Steiner. But we abhor the fact that Popkin goes free only when the government sees fit to dismiss a grand jury which it had milked to the hilt...
...Church. These groups have since spread all across the Soviet Union, drawing mainly farmers and laborers. Like Baptists in Western Europe and the U.S., they do not baptize infants but immerse persons who decide individually to become Christians. They enjoy biblical preaching and robust singing as much as they abhor drinking and smoking. They differ from Western Baptists by observing traditional church feast days like Trinity Sunday, the day on which President Nixon visited. More important, the All-Union Council uses district superintendents to supervise local churches and name pastors, while Baptist congregations in the West are autonomous...
...executive council of the student government, which disapproved of the demonstration, sent a letter of apology to the gymnasium saying "the student leaders abhor what has taken place and will take every means in our power to rectify the deplorable situation...
Psychopolitical Ploy. Many conservative Republicans who abhor controls would welcome decisive measures instead of soothing words. The best evidence suggests that Nixon and his advisers believe that their economic course is right and that things will eventually improve. But the suspicion that their public optimism is a psychopolitical ploy will not go away. Said Nancy Travis, a secretary in Santa Monica: "The Administration is so worried about being reelected, it's immobilized. They seem to be afraid of alienating anybody." The result could be alienating almost everybody...