Word: anathemas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...everybody. His name is still anathema to most of the South, and many Northerners manage to resist his spell. But those who like him do so uncritically. "His position on Viet Nam is not that of my district," says Michigan's Democratic
...blinks when U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador, Raúl Castro, 50, introduces himself. But in the U.S., the handle can be a headache, particularly in places like Miami, hotbed of militant Cuban exiles, where the name of Fidel's kid brother and Defense Minister is anathema. "I was in Miami not long ago," the Mexican-born U.S. career diplomat told the Nucleus Club in Phoenix, "and 20 minutes after I checked into a hotel, the word got around that Raúl Castro was in town. I was afraid to walk across the lobby. From now on, when...
This was not as paradoxical as it seemed. What it really added up to was uncertainty about U.S. Government policy. Uncertainty is anathema to investors, and they have felt a lot of it in 1966. The U.S. economy as a whole is still roaring ahead, but inflation fed by war and high Government spending is a constant threat, and there are nagging doubts about what, if anything, Washington intends to do about...
Consequently, the Chinese viewed the proposed treaties as serving only the Soviet's interests. Shortly after the joint fleet proposal they denounced Russia's aid overtures as an attempt to gain control of China. The fleet question particularly was anathema to the Chinese because the Soviets had suggested the fleet be based at Port Arthur. "For the Russians to have returned to Port Arthur at this time would have been like the British returning to Boston in 1800," Rendell said...
...most Democrats? ("If you get any more forward than you are," Hubert Humphrey once kidded him, "you'll be ahead of the Democratic Party.") To the brand of Republican who keeps the conservative faith between elections with readings from Robert Taft and denunciations of Lyndon Johnson, the idea is anathema...