Word: detest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year, the first Budget Director was so thoroughly in control that he had inspired cuts of $1.7 billion in Government expenses from the preceding fiscal year. Then, with the pattern set (he hoped), he quit as he had said he would, "for I detest this life ... As one who must be used to upset the status quo, I am not the logical man to continue the operation of the Budget Bureau...
...Replace Grandval. whom the French colons detest, with General Pierre Boyer de Latour du Moulin, the successful Resident General of Tunisia...
...House of Commons last week, made it plain that while Labor could criticize, it had little to contribute to a solution. Its standard formula-a return to rationing -would cut spending, but it would also mean that Britons would have to return to the well-remembered austerity they detest...
...Witcutt has been a high-church Anglican curate in London's run-down suburb of East Ham. The freedom of the Church of England is a relief to him. "More and more the Latin liturgy had become an annoyance to me," he writes, and "I had grown to detest the spiritual Iron Curtain which divides Roman Catholics from their fellow countrymen ... I am sorry to say that the Roman Catholic, and particularly the priest, despises the Church of England. He does not consider its clergy to be true priests, and he despises it for its lack of congregations...
...Russian people generally detest the Soviet regime, but they are not likely to attempt revolution in the for seeable future, according to a study made for the Air Force by the Russian Research Center...