Word: anathemae
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...With the judgment of the angels and of the saints we excommunicate, cut off, curse and anathematize Baruch de Spinoza . . . in the presence of the Holy Books, by the 613 precepts which are written therein, with the anathema wherewith Joshua cursed Jericho, with the curse which Elisha laid upon the children, and with all the curses which are written in the Law. Cursed be he by day, and cursed be he by night. Cursed be he in sleeping, and cursed be he in waking . . . And we warn you, there shall no man speak to him, no man write...
Although the Big Green even used a Canadian, anathema on the road series, the 500 fans who weathered snow and ice to attend could see that the Crimson was clearly the better team...
...themselves as sounding boards for Marxist propaganda. And perversion of cases and legal doctrine could scarcely withstand the careful scrutiny of the editorial purgatory. Furthermore, it would seem to us that a truly Marxist approach would require challenges to Angle-American jurisprudence that would be painfully obvious. Were such anathema to evade the editors, it would scarcely pass unnoticed by the august subscribers of the Harvard Law Review. Lawyers and law students have, after all, outgrown the diaper stage in their intellectual development...
...table conference as a prelude to what they sometimes call "a settlement of the cold war." The British wanted India there. They cherish the notion that Red China can be separated from the Kremlin, and they think that India can help them turn the trick. Furthermore, Syngman Rhee is anathema to the British. The Times of London sneered last week that the U.S. was beginning to "look more and more like a satellite of South Korea," an odd attitude in those who, in the next breath, accuse the U.S. of stubbornly disregarding the opinion of others...
...June 26, 1950, when he threw his weight behind the U.N.'s decision to resist Communist aggression in Korea, Trygve Lie became anathema to the Russians. After the U.N. extended his term until 1954 the Russians snubbed him at meetings, addressed all their communications to the Secretariat...