Word: abhorent
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Javits' knowledgeable, purposive mien wins him the respect of many who abhor his philosophy?and generous support from those who share it. To raise funds for his 1962 campaign, 20 luncheons were held at New York's 21 Club, each for 24 persons. If the tab was high, the take was higher: $250,000 from the 480 guests. His financial backers are a wildly diverse group?thanks in part to Marion's standing in artistic-intellectual-entertainment circles. They have comprised a mint of Rockefellers, a socko of showbiz moguls from MCA's Jules Stein to the late Billy Rose...
...gravity. But the laws of levity begin to go topsyturvy as well in Agent's craven acts of homage to its prototype. Curling under Adams' sheets, one pussycat purrs: "I met someone like you in Florida. Called himself James . . . James Something." If the bogus Bonds abhor originality, they should at least show enough professional savvy to cover their tracks...
...modest enough, the 1928 changes do excise some of the gloomiest theologizing of the Anglican past. The burial service, for example, omits "man that is born of a woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery." In the Te Deum, God, who "didst not abhor the Virgin's womb," becomes who "didst humble thyself to be born of a virgin...
...abhor violence," insists James Farmer, the National Director of CORE, "but I love a battle...
University officials have admitted in the past that Final Clubs do discriminate: In November 1963, Dean Watson said in a Harvard Crimson interview: "Of course some of the final clubs discriminate and we abhor the practice; but we cannot coerce them into accepting members regardless of race. This has never been our policy...