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Word: detest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...truly detest the snow. It's so dirty and cold," explained DeFailly as she treaded her way through the gray slush of Mass...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Skiing, Skating, Sledding In Cambridge Over Break | 12/14/1982 | See Source »

...have no real rapport with the 'workers,' in fact I actively detest them en masse. They grumble and strike and behave abominably while their very existence is made possible by sailors and merchant seamen who get a quarter or less than a quarter of what they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Excerpt | 10/11/1982 | See Source »

...They detest sociology...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Lively, Profitable World of Kid Lit | 12/29/1980 | See Source »

...like Boston Edison and you detest the idea of nuclear power within a million megawatts of you, you should be sure to read your entire ballot tomorrow...

Author: By Susan K. Brown, | Title: Proposition 2 1/2 And All That... | 11/3/1980 | See Source »

...real differences between Bush and Reagan are in style and manner. The son of a Connecticut banker and Senator, educated at Andover and Yale, frequently dressed in rep tie and blazer, Bush is the very embodiment of the Eastern Republican Establishment that many of Reagan's rougher-hewn followers detest. Thirty-two years in Texas, where he made a fortune now estimated at more than $1.8 million in the oil business, have left no trace of the Sunbelt in his voice or manners. As a Congressman (1967-70) who later served brief terms as Ambassador to the U.N., chairman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Not a Cross Word Between Us | 7/28/1980 | See Source »

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