Word: abhor
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...difficulties, and he seeks desperately to get "in" with groups he knows. He watches the club group; he finds out he is excluded if he does not meet certain restrictive standards. He watches the publications group; unless he has certain peculiar talents he cannot gain entry there. He may abhor politics, social work, card playing, or drinking; these groups are therefore out. The terms of the search should not be put too baldly, but it goes on nevertheless. Success equates with satisfaction, failure with unhappiness. Very few are strong enough to go the whole way alone...
...seven weeks, the hottest spot in baseball-managing the New York Yankees-was empty. Manhattan sportswriters, who abhor a vacuum, rushed in to fill it. They bandied such names as Leo ("The Lip") Durocher, Frank Frisch and Jimmy Dykes. In one week, three sports pages, each professing to be closest to the horse's mouth, named three different...
...imposed a callousness which I abhor. I find I am intolerant and overly suspicious. I dislike all Germans and hate many of them more than any man should hate another. I have seen things which made me rejoice to be a member of the same species as those who did them. But I have seen much more that makes me regret that I was born into this century...
Wrote the New York Times's Anne O'Hare McCormick: "The remarkable thing is that the military commanders do not come back as conquering heroes. They come back as war-haters, successful soldiers who abhor the business in which they have been engaged. . . . These are conquerors who do not glorify war. . . . They are moved or outraged by human suffering. They are individuals, and they see other people as individuals. Their democracy is not only one of the head but of the heart...
...Romans on the law of a Christian: "Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cling to that which is good. Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another; not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord; rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer. . . . Bless them which persecute you: bless, and curse not. Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep. Be of the same mind one toward another. Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate. Be not wise...