Word: abhors
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...interest, cannot muster enough internal disagreement for really fruitful debate. And they view debates with each other something like troops regard combat with fixed bayonets. The majority of students avoid all these clubs, sometimes because they do not want to be themselves to national organizations and sometimes because they abhor "student politics...
Secondly, to the extent that this new rule limits social activity to weekends, clearing the week-days of feminine invasion, it means ordering and patterning undergraduates' life, something we abhor. Either University Hall considers students mature enough to run their own affairs or it does not, and so long as any limits but the most essential, any above the absolute minimum, are maintained, it is clear that the deans take the dimmer view...
...Hopper cried: "Hundreds of people . . . maybe thousands . . . all those wonderful people we call little people . . . were pleased" with the news. "No one can deny," wrote Hedda, that Chaplin "is a good actor. He is. But that doesn't give him the right to go against our customs, to abhor everything we stand for, to throw our hospitality back in our faces ... I abhor what he stands for ... 'Good riddance to bad company...
Most of all, they would like to encourage Harry Truman to retire, by showing him that the South is ready to stage a first-class revolt. Their greatest complaint against Truman: his race policies. They abhor the proposal for a federal fair employment practices law, which would strike at segregation. The Southerners rationalize their stand by claiming that this problem should be handled by the states...
...Mohammed to the age of Stratocruisers is in many respects as difficult a task as Lenin set himself to. It must be done by precept and persuasion, with no secret police to compel obedience. As a piece of social engineering, this job, being attempted by capitalists who abhor the word revolution, bears comparison with the Russian Revolution...