Word: abhor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...denounce racism in other black leaders while seeming to ignore offensive remarks by whites -- as, for example, Senator Ernest Hollings, who had some time before made a supposedly joking reference to an African delegation as cannibals. The larger issue was that blacks feel they should be presumed to abhor anti-Semitism and other forms of racism without having to say so, and that they resent the attempt by whites to script their views, behavior or alliances...
...insist and insist again, by Vague Generalities. We abhor V.G.'s, we skim right past them, we start wondering what kind of C to give from the first V.G. we encounter; and as they pile up we decide C-. (Harvard being Harvard, we do not give D's. Consider C-a failure.) Why? Not because they are a sign the student does not know the material, or hasn't thought creatively, or any of that folly. They simply make tedious reading. "Locke is a transitional figure." "The whole thing boils down to human rights." Now I ask you, I have...
...people of other ethnic backgrounds. Any one who has felt prejudice or hatred because of their ethnicity will have strong feelings on the issue, but they do not have a special right to dictate what is said about racism and what is done about it. Even among people who abhor racism, there is room for differences on what should be done about...
...your freshman year and you come from a traditional community," Webb said. "You come to a place where people abhor your entire way of life--your desire to have a wife and kids, your belief in God. You feel like you have no place here, you feel that people don't care about your issues...
...health-reform legislation this week. The political war reflects the public's ambivalence: a majority of Americans favor a woman's right to choose but wish she would elect to have the baby. "Most view abortion as a privacy matter," explains White House pollster Stan Greenberg. "But most abhor the act and are opposed to using tax dollars for abortions for those who can't pay for them...