Word: anglophobia
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Financial problems, not an upsurge of Anglophobia, were responsible for Harvard's withdrawal from the meet. According to Thomas D. Bolles, Athletic Director, "We just can't justify the meet with our present financial difficulties...
...ally and possible rival, Lawyer Swart, once tr'ed-and failed-to make his fortune in Hollywood (he played a bit part as a giant). A strident anti-Semite ("No Jewish votes are wanted"), he shares Strydom's Anglophobia, but reserves his bitterest contempt for the native four-fifths of South Africa's population. Swart once dramatized his plans to get tough with the Negroes by appearing in Parliament with a cat-o'-nine-tails tucked under...
Personal Affection. Despite his flippancies and irrelevancies, Iddon usually tries to be kind to the U.S. in his own way, often shows a sharp editorial insight. He has cautioned Britons against being shaken by the Anglophobia of such "choleric" isolationist newspapers as the Hearst press, Bertie McCormick's Chicago Tribune and the New York Daily News, and has admonished his readers: "Remember this personal affection of Americans for the British when you read the melancholy stories of abuse...
...fall to a standard as low as that of rooting pigs. The great blow fell in Ireland in 1845 when a dismal blight turned the entire potato crop to dust almost overnight, killing a million Irishmen and sending a million more to sow in the U.S. "The seeds of Anglophobia which, after 100 years, is still alive...
...Colonel McCormick's Chicago Tribune, whose Anglophobia extends to a deliberate ignoring of titles, duly mentioned it as "Ambassador Clark Kerr's" speech...