Word: abhor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...many people, in both the U.S. and South Africa, who abhor apartheid question whether economic sanctions would work. "Unilateral American sanctions are totally ineffective," says Republican Newt Gingrich of Georgia. Gingrich was one of 35 Congressmen who recently asked President Reagan for stronger condemnation of South Africa, a move many saw as an attempt to nip last week's measures in the bud. Gingrich believes that the House bill would simply allow other countries to step in and fill the gap. There is evidence that France, Japan and Israel, which are already involved in the South African economy, would step...
...Would students be justified in disrupting a commencement speech on the ground that they should not have to choose between attending their own graduation and listening to a speaker whose views they abhor...
...represented in the West End by a romantic comedy called House of Cards, about an architect who suspects his wife of adultery. Stoppard opens The Real Thing with a scene from House of Cards, a brilliantly brittle Coward parody full of stiff-upper-libido dialogue like "I abhor cliché. It's one of the things that has kept me faithful." As it happens, the two leading players in House of Cards are Henry's wife Charlotte (Christine Baranski) and his friend Max (Kenneth Welsh). And Henry has just begun a secret, convulsive love affair with...
Wylie finally approved the bridge, saying," As much as I abhor what they're doing, I have to vote for the bridge...
...There are a great number of Catholics who are anti-abortion without being members of the Right-to-Life political movement. Certainly, we consider abortion to be a moral outrage, and take that fact into consideration when casting our votes. We are not, however, single-issue voters; I myself abhor the single-interest politics that is exemplified by the pro-lifers and most other special-interest groups. So one must remember that the political pro-life movement that is the subject of Ms. Idelson's review is neither representative nor typical of most anti-abortionists. There are over 40 million...