Word: detestability
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Once he inquired: "What aid to feminine beauty do you detest most?" Prompt was the answer of a frustrated male: "Bust developers made of sponge rubber." On another occasion he posed the question: "Did you ever kiss a man with a beard, and what reaction was there?" A girl replied: "Yes, when I was young and having my teeth straightened. Some of his whiskers caught in my wire brace, and he said 'ouch...
...Paris a small group of politicians and would-be Gauleiters control the press and the radio, try to sell their brand of collaboration to the French people. But the people of Occupied France, in daily contact with their conquerors, detest them only a little less than they hate the traitors who collaborate with them in spreading anti-British propaganda (see cut, p. 25). These people put their hopes in De Gaulle...
...While we detest totalitarianism in any guise, we feel that entry into a long and dangerous war would gravely threaten American democracy even if we were victorious. But America's most pressing responsibilities lie among our own people and in our own hemisphere. We advocate hemisphere cooperation and defence in accordance with these duties as our best service to democracy and to the world. We favor measures to prevent profiteering in the crisis, and we are against any encroachment on social gains...
...Orchard became associated with a Society of Free Catholics, obtained holy orders from an irregular but valid source, the Syro-Nestorian Church. He finally entered the Church of Rome in 1932. When he was ordained anew, in 1935, he had but one regret: he found it difficult to "detest" his former faith, as required in the oath of abjuration...
Business. The U. S. should stay out of the war, cooperate economically with Great Britain and France. "There is nothing that businessmen the world over fear and detest quite so much as war. ... I wish someone would run down the sources of the idea that businessmen are inclined to war. ... In recent years we have seen Japan's aggressions in Asia, and Italy's in Africa, and Hitler's. ... Is there anyone in his right mind who would suggest that these acts of violence . . . have been favored or promoted by business interests...