Word: detestable
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...House of Commons last week, made it plain that while Labor could criticize, it had little to contribute to a solution. Its standard formula-a return to rationing -would cut spending, but it would also mean that Britons would have to return to the well-remembered austerity they detest...
...Witcutt has been a high-church Anglican curate in London's run-down suburb of East Ham. The freedom of the Church of England is a relief to him. "More and more the Latin liturgy had become an annoyance to me," he writes, and "I had grown to detest the spiritual Iron Curtain which divides Roman Catholics from their fellow countrymen ... I am sorry to say that the Roman Catholic, and particularly the priest, despises the Church of England. He does not consider its clergy to be true priests, and he despises it for its lack of congregations...
...Russian people generally detest the Soviet regime, but they are not likely to attempt revolution in the for seeable future, according to a study made for the Air Force by the Russian Research Center...
...whether the Philippines is to remain a firm ally of the U.S. in Asia (as will be the case if Magsaysay wins the struggle) or becomes an uneasy neutralist dependency, tied to the U.S. by bonds it cannot escape yet led by men who in varying degree detest the bonds and distrust...
...burghers of France had reason to detest La Pompadour. The flowers in her many gardens "were renewed every day, as we renew them now in a room" (the greenhouses at Trianon alone held 2,000,000 pots). At her town house in Paris, she thought nothing of taking "a big bite into the Champs Elysées for her kitchen garden" (it would have been much bigger if Parisians had not burst out in a storm of rage). The secret police were in her pocket. In affairs of state, "nothing was decided without her knowledge"; in the Seven Years...