Word: detested
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Three-Year Dictatorship. For 20 minutes Naguib spoke, while overhead jets ripped across rooftops. Then at a signal the crowd rose and repeated after him Egypt's new creed, the Liberation Oath: "Almighty God, you love the strong and detest the meek. You spread your mercy over those who prefer to die in dignity for the sake of liberty to a life of dishonor in a realm of bondage . . . We swear by Thy Holy Name to work to our utmost [for a country] free from wicked passions and compatible with what is right and just . . . Our motto shall always...
...Translation: "Constancy, tyrant of the heart, we detest as a cruel disease...
...more action. When Prime Minister Herbert Asquith demurred, Hughes shouted: "I have a policy! You don't! If you expect me to sit like a stuffed dummy while there's a war to be won, you've picked the wrong man." Said Earl Balfour: "How I detest him!" But young Winston Churchill called him "a man of fire and comprehension, head and shoulders above his fellows...
Nothing but Color. In public, Cézanne was a granitic misanthrope who could snarl through his snarled beard: "Compared to me, my compatriots are asses. I detest them all." Privately, he was racked with self-doubt: "I am a timid man, a bohemian, and people laugh at me." Late in life, he confessed that his painting had "made some progress. Why so late and so painfully...
...tension of the opening sequence unwinds steadily in a dawdling intrigue of dishonor among thieves. Granger takes the painting to Tunis, where he meets silkenly villainous Art Dealer George Sanders ("You know I detest violence"), who has commissioned him to steal it. Granger tells Sanders that the painting was accidentally destroyed and proposes making forgeries instead for the wealthy collector's trade...