Word: detested
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reading of a bill to abolish the common informer. Said M.P. Major Edward Legge-Bourke: "In these times, when, under certain regimes in other countries, neighbors inform on neighbors-in fact it is almost their duty to do so-this bill is a sign of the fact that we detest all that form of sneaking." Said Le Touzel: "I'm finished...
Krupp's reprieve roused wide Allied apprehension. The Paris-Presse saw "all that the French detest in Germany-the Prussian spirit, pan-Germanism, militarism, industrial dumping-" walking abroad again...
...Guido Turchi, 34, follows a more conservative line ("I detest exclusiveness and dogma"), relies on fine craftsmanship and simplicity more than experimentation. His mild-mannered Piccolo Concerto, with its pensive string passages and brilliant tone colors, was the easiest to listen to of the three new works...
...battle cry: "We must make parades, demonstrations! They can shoot down eight of us-but they can't shoot down 800!" She confided later: "I don't care a bit if they shoot me, but I really wouldn't like to go to prison-I detest sleeping in little rooms...
...detested Mickey Rooney in the past, you'll detest the little guy even more in "The Big Wheel," which is on the same bill as "The Hasty Heart." "The Big Wheel" is about auto racing, and, to be perfectly blunt, it stinks...