Word: anathema
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There is, after all, a place where American women might escape the oncoming tyranny of midi fashions, though it seems an extreme solution. Despite the normally puritanical attitude of most Communist regimes, East Germany's state fashion institute has pronounced its anathema on the midi. "Such creations do not agree with our active style of life," said a spokesman for the Deutsches Mode-Institut, which dictates styles to East German couturiers. "The main characteristics of our fashion are: young, optimistic and purposeful...
...refer here, of course, to a true desire widely held, not to that deceitful McCarthy kind which merely masks a drive for power. Much of the explanation for the growth among us of intolerant attitudes and the acceptance of destructive styles of behavior which should be anathema in academic societies is undoubtedly to be found in such considerations...
Poverty Gap. Roman Catholic hospitals and many Catholic and Orthodox Jewish physicians will have nothing to do with abortions. To them the law, like the procedure, is anathema. But a surprising number of nonsectarian "voluntary" hospitals (private but nonprofit) are imposing restrictions that are generally tighter than the law requires. The effect is to shunt many cases to "private" (meaning for profit) hospitals, which are making a financial killing as high-class abortion mills, while the poor, who are most in need of cheap, safe operations, are getting the least benefit from...
Usually the rail post positions are anathema for the horse player. The rail horse gets hemmed in and often never get to run his race. The track surface along the rail is often deeper than the track surface out a few feet from he rail, and the rail horse flounders in the deep and soft going, while the horses in the outside holes sprint to an easy victory...
...refer here, of course, to a true decide widely held, not to that deceitful McCarthy kind which merely masks a drive for power. Much of the explanation for the growth among us of intolerant attitudes and the acceptance of destructive styles of behavior which should be anathema in academic societies is undoubtedly to be found in such considerations...