Word: abhorred
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Those who think the world is going to the dogs will find now justification for their beliefs. Those who trust the undergraduate will be amply rebuffed. And those sensitive souls who forever find evidences of bad taste, who always abhor the slightly libelous, and, tender-nosed, continually ferret out the scandalous will be well titillated...
...properties and is adored by the peasants for his simplicity. He is a great sportsman. I have a holy horror of sport. As for the French bourgeoisie-to which I myself belong-I do not like them. My nostrils have breathed heavily the winds of the great spaces. I abhor everything which might be niggardly. The bourgeoisie are too egotistical. They cannot understand that it is no longer possible to keep the French people in a state of relative misery. Yes, it is true, I am called 'The Red Marquise...
...profound admiration for Germany," cried the Bishop of Chichester. "Surely the great masses of the German people themselves abhor the policy of persecution...
...college disclaims him; the houses abhor him; his friends come to suspect him; and before long he has assumed somewhat the aspect of a hunted criminal. If he walks through the common room of a house he believes that all eyes are focused upon him in derision. He begins to lose his self-confidence, and he is ready to believe that for him college life can only be a myth...
...Administration's distrust of the Nye investigation was that the Government understood well enough the true facts about the U. S. munitions industry. Not only is it small fry compared to the European arms industries, but the men who run it are typical U. S. businessmen who abhor, in typical U. S. fashion, the idea of fomenting war for profit. The big arms makers of Europe may not be above such skullduggery, but up to last week Senator Nye's committee had produced no shred of evidence to prove that U. S. arms makers had stooped to such practices...