Word: anathemae
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...president of the newly consolidated University of North Carolina in 1930 and held the post for 19 controversial years. He defended the right of students to invite speakers of all ideologies and spoke up for trade unionists and the pioneer civil rights demonstrators. Though these positions made him an anathema to many Southern conservatives, Graham was appointed to fill a vacant Senate seat in 1949. The following year he lost the nomination for a full term after a campaign bitter with racial overtones. For the next 16 years Graham worked as a U.N. mediator in a determined but unsuccessful effort...
...challenges to his power by ambitious or disenchanted rivals. After the Great Leap stumbled in the late 1950s, Mao was rudely shouldered out of China's presidency by his own protege, Liu Shao-chi, who championed work incentives and other "revisionist" economic innovations that were anathema to Mao. Isolated in the party chairmanship, Mao looked for a means of regaining power-and found the army. With Lin Piao, the army chief, he planned the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, which would use the exuberance of the youthful, radical Red Guards to shake up the party-and shake...
...more easily regulated, man-made unit backed by the International Monetary Fund. A few such units, called Special Drawing Rights, are already in existence. Unfortunately, to many politicians, bankers and ordinary citizens, the thought of a reserve currency not backed by gold or something equally scarce is still anathema. Another problem will be the nearly $50 billion in dollars that have left the U.S. in recent years and flooded Europe's central banks. Any long-term monetary agreement must find a way for dollar-choked nations to convert their holdings for something besides gold, since current U.S. gold reserves...
...From Anathema to Statesman. He might have responded sooner but for the fact that shippers had cautioned him to keep hands off. They were worried that I.L.W.U. President Harry Bridges might lose control of his union if the Federal Government got involved. Once anathema to management because of his fiery radicalism and flirtation with Communism, Bridges is now respected as a labor statesman. In recent years he has agreed to eliminate featherbedding in return for more job security and fringe benefits. Because of his new stance. Bridges is now under attack from militants within the union. Alarmed over the decline...
...sing. Most of the sting in the first two weeks came from sassy Teresa Graves (formerly of Laugh-In) and the blue-collar couple, Warren Berlinger and Pat Finley. The elderly Burt Mustin and Queenie Smith were wry and especially welcome, considering that old people have heretofore been virtually anathema to television...