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...still serve in the Moroccan bureaucracy. King Mohammed has let France keep 20 bases and 35,000 troops in Morocco. This devotion to the French dream of "interdependence" between Morocco and France has exposed the King to incessant and increasing protests from Morocco's vociferous ultranationalists, who abhor all dealings with their country's former imperial masters. In reply, King Mohammed has counseled patience, negotiations and trust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORTH AFRICA: Bound for Obliteration | 3/17/1958 | See Source »

...Hell," he preached, "is a damnable doctrine-responsible for a large measure of this world's hatred. According to this doctrine, God, who commands us to love our enemies, plays the hypocrite by damning his enemies. This in turn stimulates the hatred of God by people who abhor hypocrisy-and it gives sanction to our hatred of certain selected enemies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Is Hell Necessary? | 12/30/1957 | See Source »

Only by demonstrating clearly and decisively that while the U.N. powers abhor the prospect of a Third World War, they will stop at nothing short of it to demonstrate their belief in self-determination and human dignity, can these countries impress upon the Russians their repulsion at Soviet invasions of Hungary...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Third World War | 11/15/1956 | See Source »

...regular Kansas Republicans make their moves slowly; they abhor violent change. Stunned by Hall's ax-wielding and pro-labor actions, they assessed the situation silently, then began moving Kansas and earth to throw the upstart out. Hall's right-to-work veto drew the wrath of the powerful Kansas City Star; his purge of old friends in the State Civil Service Board brought suspicious frowns; his meddling and muddling in legislative affairs ("I am the governor") stirred deep resentment. When Hall called recalcitrant legislators "s.o.b.s" to their faces during a bitter legislative rhubarb early this year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Hall's Fall | 8/20/1956 | See Source »

...abhor and oppose the subtle, creeping tendencies of all forms of liberalism, moderate republicanism and progressive conservatism...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LET THERE BE LIGHT | 1/17/1956 | See Source »

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