Word: anathema
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fact remains that, for all the team's success and for all the inherent appeal of the game, soccer continues to be played before a select few--coach Bruce Munro, substitutes, and the participants' girl friends and immediate families. For most others, the entire game is an anathema. Harvard men hesitate to inflict their dates with the discomfort of sitting through four 22-minute quarters of a largely incomprehensible contest, usually in the cold of a Saturday morning...
Though De Gaulle did not use the phrase "self-determination," that seemed clearly his meaning. Such a development would be anathema to French rightists who have loudly insisted on complete "integration" of Algeria into France and who, so far, have been able to veto any more liberal solution to the rebellion. But last week, with all Paris caught up in enthusiasm for Ike and convinced-overoptimistically-that Ike had promised U.S. support to De Gaulle's new plan, rightist outcries were uncharacteristically restrained...
Amid the nation's scramble for brainpower, some men believe in imposing a uniformly "tough" curriculum on all students. Vice Admiral Hyman G. Rickover wants to set up European-style schools limited to the brightest scholars. To Conant, both ideas are anathema on realistic as well as philosophical grounds. A single standard would breed frustration, delinquency and lower standards. The elite school implies splitting up universal education on the European pattern...
MINNESOTA'S Senator Hubert Humphrey is anathema to the conservative South, has been unable to create an image of himself as a real presidential possibility, is probably just in the race for the ebullient hell...
Money & Autonomy. His eagerness to buy up papers plus the fact that he never writes a line of copy, never wields an editorial pencil, has made Newhouse anathema to many old-line publishers, who consider him an absentee press lord, a businessman only casually interested in the papers themselves. But Newhouse can argue that he cares so much for the autonomy of his papers that he generally leaves editorial matters completely in local hands. A registered Democrat, Newhouse even leaves political stands untouched; e.g., in Syracuse, his Republican Post-Standard scraps with his Democrat-leaning Herald-Journal. One notable exception...