Word: abhors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Finally, Goldwater is playing hard on the Cuba theme: "I was born on the Mexican border, and spoke Spanish almost before I spoke English. I know the Latin American people, and their concern with Cuba. I know that above all, they love courage and abhor cowardice. As of now, frankly, they consider us cowards: they cannot understand why a big country should let itself be pushed around by a little power like this...
...French abstain when they can from their ill-tasting tap water in favor of vin ordinaire, and abhor the ice water that Americans call for. Such Gallic hydrophobia does not apply, however, to bottled mineral water. In the course of a year, the French drink 1.2 billion bottles drawn from 3,000 springs, or 25 bottles for every man, woman and child. By far France's biggest producer of mineral water is Source Perrier, a $79 million firm that has grown so prosperous from its natural springs that it now owns seven mineral water companies, a soft drink company...
...Formal, deliberate exclusions of this sort would violate the most deeply held principles of the College. You have noted that even though a student organization has an open membership clause in its constitution, it may nonetheless in its elections practice discrimination and exclusions of a sort we profess to abhor...
...virus from which God has so far protected us: lies, psychological warfare, and insults." Face it, said Hassan to his foe: "Whether you like it or not, Morocco will have the regime it has chosen. Make the best of a bad deal and coexist with this monarchy that you abhor...
...already talking as if he were the next President of Argentina. "Our aims are clear," he says, "and we will move toward them in orderly, methodical fashion-patiently but with perseverance. We will not employ spectacular methods, which in principle I abhor." During the campaign he struck a nationalistic note by promising an "investigation" of what the International Monetary Fund has been doing "for and to" Argentina. He also promised to "an nul" the controversial oil contracts be tween foreign oilmen and the old Frondizi government. "But no one need be alarmed by this," he said. "Justice will be recognized...