Word: detestability
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Those who detest escorted tours could pick regular commercial air service: Rio, now 31 hours from Miami, $765 round trip; Chile, 29½ hours, $828 round trip; Mexico City, 18 hours from New York and 7½ hours from Dallas, $223.96 and $91.66 for the round trip. (The introduction of four-engined equipment this spring will cut flying time, reduce fares...
...Author Waugh lives in an old Gloucestershire manor house with his (second) wife, and four children whom he affects to detest. He is a connoisseur of wines and cigars, wears a bowler, takes the air swinging an old-fashioned cane. He cannot drive a car, shuns the telephone, barely accepts a telegram. Sighs his go-ahead friend Randolph Churchill: "He becomes more old-fashioned . . . every day. His favorite novelist is Trollope. . . . He seeks to live in an oasis...
Tone of the G.O.P. campaign was set by rich, aging Senator Ed H. Moore, who used to be a Democrat until he sickened of the New Deal. Cried he: "I hate and detest the New Deal with all my soul. It is a destructive vice in America. I want it eradicated completely." Replied big-gun Democrat, Kentucky's Alben Barkley: "I just asked them what part of the New Deal they would vote against . . . social security, the wage-hour act, bank insurance, soil conservation and all the rest...
Soldiers and airmen like bright, moonlit nights; sailors detest them. The Navy's ideal for an invasion is a dark night, with a light breeze and fair visibility. Next best is a full moon, shrouded with clouds so that just enough light filters through to maneuver ships & men. But the sailors especially hate fog; though it provides cover against the enemy, it hampers naval gunnery, endangers crowded shipping, grounds friendly airmen...
...Nazi fury for fewer sins. Switzerland is democratic; she is "polyglot"; her largest racial group is German. Her culture is incurably liberal and her biggest political party is Social Democratic. She is home and symbol of the world's greatest experiments in the internationalism which the Nazis detest: the League of Nations and the Red Cross. Now, with war in the Mediterranean, Switzerland has automatically become guilty of the cardinal sin: being in Hitler...