Word: detestability
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...Crump, snowcapped political boss of Tennessee, paused in a blast at Communism to explain himself: "I detest red . . . my hair was red for many years. I was kind to it, kept it trimmed and perfumed, slept with it, always had it on top. Yet, with all my kindness, love and affection for it, it deserted me-turned . . . traitor. It is now as white as the peaks of Mt. McKinley...
...caricatured than portrayed. The sharpest shaft ever aimed at him-that he possessed "the greatest mind of the 14th Century" - did Bertie, as well as Dante, a disservice.* So have the oversimplified pictures of McCormick as a feudal lord of the manor, aping the English aristocrats he professes to detest; as a fascist menace; as "Col. McCosmic," the frustrated military strategist; as a crackpot Midas...
...dared in an era when such acts are rare. One of the world's most inspired and most popular artists-a man who for decades has delighted people of all races, from children to highbrows-now deliberately releases a film which almost nobody can wholly like. Many will detest the product and despise Chaplin for producing it. He has replaced his beloved, sure-fire tramp with an equally original, but far less engaging character-a man whose grace and arrogance alone would render him suspect with the bulk of the non-Latin world. He has gone light on pure...
...seems to discourage the enamel-eating lactobacilli for six months to two years afterward. (Jay guesses that a sugarless diet may encourage the growth of germs that fight lactobacilli.) The best recipe for good teeth: drink fluorine-containing water in childhood (TIME, April 24, 1944). If fluorine, which lactobacilli detest, is introduced into the enamel while the teeth are being formed, the teeth get permanent protection...
...people not only refuse to wear such clothes, but also consider those who trade in them traitors who act against the interests of national industries. Everybody must try to use the homemade goods so that our nation can stand apart from the coming world crisis. We repeat that Azerbaijanis detest and despise the secondhand clothes of others...