Word: abhorred
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Some of the 13 industry associations that sponsor Scott and National Dairy Month abhor such alarming talk, and turn the statistics to quite a different conclusion. Since the Agriculture Department's dairy products figures are stated in terms of milk-fat consumption (and 1 Ib. of butter is rated as 21 Ibs.), the Milk Industry Foundation argues that 80% of the drop in dairy products represents butter's loss to competing margarine and claims that consumption of fluid whole milk has actually increased 10.9 Ibs. since...
...read the damned thing. But I am very eager to get some penetrative interpretations of it." Durrell obliged, but Hamlet sort of disappeared when Miller wrote about him; it was really Miller on Miller. Durrell might have expected that from a man who admitted: "I am against knowledge. I abhor it. I loathe it. I want to become more and more ignorant, more quiet, more vegetative, more ruminative, more omnivorous, carnivorous, herbivorous. I want to stand still and dance inside...
...insist and insist again, by Vague Generalities. We abhor V.G.'s, we skim right past them, we start wondering what kind of a C to give from the first V.G. we encounter; and as they pile up, we decide: C--.(Harvard being Harvard, one does not give D's. Consider C-- a failure.) Why? Not because they are a sign the student doesn't know the material, or hasn't thought carefully, or any of that folly. They simply make tedious reading. "Locke is a transitional figure." "The whole thing boils down to human rights...
...insist and insist again, by Vague Generalities. We abhor V.G.'s, we skim right past them, we start wondering what kind of a C to give from the first V.G. we encounter; and as they pile up, we decide: C--. (Harvard being Harvard, one does not give D's. Consider C--a failure.) Why? Not because they are a sign the student doesn't know the material, or hasn't thought carefully, or any of that folly. They simply make tedious reading. "Locke is a transitional figure." The whole thing boils down to human rights...
...resettling farmers in self-contained communities, like those once organized for defense against Communist attacks. In one settlement in Bilut Valley, 483 Malay, Chinese and Indian families, most of whom have never farmed before, are living peacefully together, even though the Chinese breed pigs, which the Malays abhor, and the Malays slaughter cattle, which are sacred to the Indians. In two years the settlement has put 5,770 acres under cultivation, hopes to expand to 13,000. But often it takes seven years before a rubber tree yields rubber, so Bilut Valley will have seven lean years of waiting...