Word: detest
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Clint Eastwood, who in theory we detest butwho seems like a nice person...
...upset by Farrakhan and the other punks who run around the country getting famous by stirring up black anti-Semitism, even though I detest them, think their movements should be ostracized by the black community, and find obnoxious the lies they spew...
...many Nigerians what is really at stake is not whether Abiola takes office, but whether they will ever have a country they can be proud of. Democracy advocates detest Babangida and the other soldiers -- who have ruled the country for 23 of its 33 years of independence -- for diminishing the Nigerian soul. Endemic corruption; the narrowing opportunities in the country that once held out so much promise; the exploitation of bitter rivalries among the three largest ethnic groups, the Yoruba, Ibo and Hausa-Fulani -- all have sapped the nation's resources, its cohesion, its confidence. Instead of building a nation...
...onslaught of phone calls condemning Zoe Baird was motivated by resentment at her elitist arrogance. Baird's nomination failed because she represented a quality the voters had begun to detest in George Bush: a disconnection from the very real struggles of Americans who lack six- or seven-figure incomes. After a year of campaign foreplay with the "forgotten middle class," Clinton failed to deliver, leaving the middle class feeling frustrated and forgotten once more...
...style, Destiny is everything Kramer has heretofore claimed to detest -- a nonrealistic memory play, crosscutting between the present in a high-powered AIDS clinic and Ned's childhood and adolescence in bourgeois-Jewish suburban Washington. The guilt he endures, the abuse, the rejection by even well- meaning relatives -- above all the preposterous but persistent demand by his parents that he lead the life they envisioned -- are all part of almost any gay adult's personal legacy. If not always richly detailed in the writing, the moments are staged by Marshall Mason with unusual power. As the younger Ned, John Cameron...