Word: detestation
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...Still, if companies want to sell even more masks, lanterns, witch hats and the like, good luck to them. It's the gullible consumers who fall for the pitch whom I detest - the employees who insist on decorating sensible cubicles with orange and black streamers and littering the office with bowls of candy, the folk who dress up and throw pumpkin parties at country clubs, the hundreds of thousands who will come to work next week in costume. Chris Riddle is the Halloween trend spotter at card-and-decorations giant American Greetings, which estimates that 25% of the American work...
...true enough that Bush’s support is declining among those Americans who worry about the economy and an enormous deficit. But those moderates and fiscal conservatives, who do not altogether detest Bush, will never support a candidate so shrill as Howard Dean, who when all is said and done, is just another McGovern...
...detest flying, so much so that I generally choose an 8-hour drive over a 90-minute flight when visiting family in Port Clinton, Ohio. But it's not every day that the military extends an opportunity to sit in the cockpit of one of its most sophisticated warplanes, the B-1B Lancer, and take the controls for a half-hour...
...That approach has isolated Earle. Other D.A.s say he worries extravagantly over minor problems. Abolitionists have little use for him because he still sends people to die. But Earle's exertions raise an intriguing question: Does it take someone like him--someone who has more or less come to detest the death penalty--to save its credibility...
Nicholas F.B. Smyth ’05, a Crimson editor, is a government concentrator in Dunster House. He is spending his summer in England, apologizing on behalf of his country’s government and reminding people that many Americans detest Bush...