Word: abhor
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...aristocracy and the rabble. Wyman Pendleton imbues the aging counselor Escalus with warmth. And Alvah Stanley, with axe, rope and chains, is properly intimidating as the executioner Abhorson--a unique name that Shakespeare fashioned, in the manner of the pivot-word so common in Japanese poetry, by fusing 'abhor' and 'whoreson...
...that if moral concern were to keep American oil companies out of Angola and other similarly troubled areas, then the European companies would take their places. What kind of moral concern is this? Since when is true moral restraint compromised by considering what others might do? If we abhor the atrocities which Portugal is perpetrating on the Angolans, how can we condone corporate support of the Portuguese on the ground that European oil companies will pick up where we leave off? There will always be some one willing to make money through direct or indirect participation in criminal activity...
...abhor the bombing," Thomson added, "and wish good luck to the Congress in opposing the President on this issue...
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...