Word: hates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hindu milkman in Bombay thought of moving his 68-year-old father from the Lahore district (which will go to Pakistan). "We own half a dozen cows and bullocks and three-quarters of an acre of land. My father would hate to leave our village and breathe the foul air of Bombay. I, my wife and five children are sharing a one-room apartment with another couple with three children. How can I accommodate my father? But I must bring him down. I cannot abandon him to Pakistan...
...train ride home from his neighborly visit to Ottawa (see CANADA), Harry Truman paused for a look at Niagara Falls. He remarked thoughtfully: "I'd hate to go over 'em in a barrel...
...good Catholic radicals" and to the proposition that the city has too many blinkered Catholic reactionaries. "I like everything about the Church except the people who run it, or try to run it," says a character in Moon Gaffney; "until we become at least as ashamed of our hate as we are of our lust, we Catholics are going...
...your goddam Communist friends." A few hours later Father Malone angrily orders Moon out of the neighborhood rectory. Moon, who has never knowingly talked to a Communist in his life, recalls that a priest had once warned him that there were elements in the Church guilty of ignorant hate and "the most terrible obscurantism...
...edge of Paris' Bois de Boulogne, he is entrenched behind a plain wooden table in which he keeps a loaded revolver ("I am high on the list of those with whom the Communists would gladly dispense"); his telephone is out of sight on the floor ("I hate to look at it"). He is still a romantic, considers Farewell to Arms and For Whom the Bell Tolls the greatest love stories since La Chartreuse de Parme. One of the few characteristics he shares with the more ordinary type of pressagent is an occasionally high opinion of himself. Says...