Word: detestability
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...Guido Turchi, 34, follows a more conservative line ("I detest exclusiveness and dogma"), relies on fine craftsmanship and simplicity more than experimentation. His mild-mannered Piccolo Concerto, with its pensive string passages and brilliant tone colors, was the easiest to listen to of the three new works...
...battle cry: "We must make parades, demonstrations! They can shoot down eight of us-but they can't shoot down 800!" She confided later: "I don't care a bit if they shoot me, but I really wouldn't like to go to prison-I detest sleeping in little rooms...
...detested Mickey Rooney in the past, you'll detest the little guy even more in "The Big Wheel," which is on the same bill as "The Hasty Heart." "The Big Wheel" is about auto racing, and, to be perfectly blunt, it stinks...
...trouble with documentaries is basic: box office-minded theater exhibitors detest them. They have no name stars. If run on a double bill, they slow up the process of cramming customers into the theaters, and rushing them out again...
...large number of patients were reported last week in the New England Journal of Medicine. An alcoholic is given an injection of emetine* (a nauseating drug derived from ipecac). Just before he vomits, he downs a glass of his favorite drink. After several such experiences, the patient begins to detest the taste, smell-or even sight-of liquor. Drs. Paul O'Hollaren and Frederick Lemere made their report from tests at Seattle's Shadel Sanitarium...