Word: abhor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Martha Mitchell on the phone again, this time speaking her mind to the Washington Star. "I resent, regret and abhor that the news media has (sic) taken upon itself to interfere with possible lines of communication with the Viet Cong," announced Martha. Criticizing the continued publication of the Pentagon papers, she blasted "the indiscreet judgment that smells of political implications on the part of the press, which has reached such an extent that it may result in complete suppression of the press-in which event it will have caused its own death." Though it may have come as a surprise...
...account. Though the manifesto in fact antagonized a good many churchmen, it may have helped release literally millions of dollars for expanded or new programs to aid minority groups, especially blacks. White churchmen generally deny that they are acting in direct response to the manifesto, whose revolutionary appeal they abhor. But in a number of denominations, there is evidence of a heightened effort to overcome the racial and social problems the manifesto dramatized. The churchmen are exercising control over their money and for the most part are not financing radicals. But they are giving. Items...
...Bolivia as 'the negation of all social purpose,' by Japan as 'fundamentally immoral,' by Canada as 'degrading,' by Algeria as 'cancerous,' and by Tanzania as 'a catalyst of violence.' Even the redoubtable Richard Nixon said of apartheid-in his state of the empire address of last Spring-"We abhor the racial policies of the white regimes." Furthermore, how often have we heard appeals directed to the rulers of South Africa-even by critics of the society writing from within that country-on the irrational bases of the policy and its self-negating ends; on the explosive and irreconcilable contradictions...
...Despite the protestations of youth [Aug. 17], as a member of the Establishment I refuse to have personal or group guilt feelings. We, too, abhor war and would prefer love and peace, but do Red China and the U.S.S.R. allow us to pursue such noble desires? We, too, are against hunger, poor housing, discrimination and poor medical care, but aren't we the ones who pay the taxes, contribute to charities and hire and help the minorities? We also approve of sex and love, even though the fire burns less furiously, and we supply the youth with the Pill...
...something over 200,000 men seems to many in government a formidable achievement. The President so proclaims it. Yet to the young, who face the draft and think on the time scale of youth, these withdrawals seem wholly inadequate. They are not seeking to avoid personal danger. Rather, they abhor personal involvement in a war they perceive as "immoral...