Word: detestably
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...proud of our great city, and not only do we deny that Albright is "Chicago's painter laureate" but many of us detest his work. I personally was so sickened by his exhibit that if I had possessed a crayon at the time, I would have drawn a mustache on each ugly portrait. LAURA PUDELWITTS Chicago...
...more than three weeks. Gaullist newspapers worried in print about the "alarming trip" that would take their hero to "the land of revolutions, of assassination attempts one after another." Novelist François Mauriac, a most emotional Gaullist, wrote in Figaro Litte-rairé: "I fear this trip, I detest it; it seems to me a provocation of destiny. I ask myself if the personnage, already legendary, is not giving in for the first time to the vertigo of his own legend...
...there is also a terrific lot of boobs, about whom I must warn you. (The Admissions Committee, you know; and with all this scholarship money, there doesn't seem to be any end to it.) They are so frightfully earnest (I detest the word "wonkish," don't you?), and they simply insist upon taking over everything. Hardly a thing remains in Good Hands, you know...
...less conservative Arab states of Sudan, Libya, Tunisia and Morocco. Nasser's effort to get Arab backing for his Yemen stand against "the British imperialists and Saudi infiltrators" may be backed by Algeria, Kuwait, and his new-found bosom friend, King Hussein of Jordan. Syria, whose Baathist rulers detest Nasser, and Lebanon, which hates quarrels, will probably stay on the sidelines...
...unfortunate that you did not explore the opinions of those Catholic laymen who detest the false pride of men like Gushing and the Jesuits. These men are the Bing Crosby and Pat O'Brien type of priests, who use cliches and terribly bold words to express their supposed liberalism. The pseudo-progressive Jesuit colleges send forth a procession of professional security-conscious, noncreative graduates...