Word: hateration
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...greatest danger is that, in defeating the gangsters in control of Germany and Japan, we descend to their level of bestiality. . . . Not only does hate hurt the hater more than the one hated, but it is an unnecessary element in the fighting spirit...
...show up at his office at noon, work until late at night. In his social life, as at work, he is a bristling individualist. He has outraged Jacksonville hostesses by taking his own brand of Scotch to cocktail parties, refusing to attend dinners unless the menu suited him. A hater of games, he goes to sleep on any handy sofa if someone suggests a round of bridge...
...pressed for heavy use of tanks. He did a better-than-average job in the worse-than-average war with Finland; he did an excellent job as head of the Kiev military district, and, perhaps most important, a bang-up job as a hater of Germany in the months when Russians were not supposed to hate Germany...
Wood, accompanied by Sam Pettengill, former Indiana Congressman and a rabid Roosevelt-hater, took over Wheeler's office as headquarters for a lobby against the impending Neutrality amendments. (The last private citizen who invaded a Congressional office to bore at legislation from within was John L. Lewis: he moved into Speaker Bankhead's office during a fight on amendments on the Walsh-Healey Act. When Congressmen found out about it, they raised the roof. If anyone has tried it since, he has kept it dark.) First plan had been to hold a big lunch in the House restaurant...
From Herbert Hoover (see p. 11) down to the smallest hater of Communism, far too many U.S. citizens reacted with an emotional belch. They apparently forgot two essential realities: 1) the Soviet Union, far from rising as a new danger, was fighting for its life; 2) the better fight it puts up, the more it weakens the power of Nazi Germany to destroy democracy throughout the world...