Word: hates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they droned off over Japan, others were left behind to fly CAP (combat air patrol). And on the bridge of the Third Fleet's flagship was the tough, stubby seadog whom the Japanese mortally hate & fear. "Bull" Halsey was on the prowl...
...Seed of Hate. To Bull Halsey, the assault was the fulfillment of two longstanding ambitions. Ever since Dec. 7, 1941, he had been obsessed with the desire to hit Japan. That morning, four years ago, as planes flying from his flagship Enterprise to Ford Island were attacked by Zeros, Halsey exploded: "My God, they're shooting at my own boys! Tell Kimmel." Then it dawned on him: Kimmel already knew, and this was war. Halsey, as senior officer afloat, soon got an order to take command of all U.S. warships then at sea in the Pacific...
...Lombardo Toledano, loud-speaking leftist chief of the powerful Latin American Federation of Labor. At San Francisco, declared Lombardo, Padilla had stooged for the U.S. State Department. He had an "anti-Soviet phobia"; his attacks on the Russian delegation had followed the propaganda line of Generalissimo Francisco Franco, pet hate of Latin American labor...
...yearly by calling in the $7,452,300 in preferred stock, which pays dividends of 6% and 7%, replace it with bonds paying 2½% interest. Committeemen were sure that Boren had been needled into his blast by 1) Omahans who still oppose public ownership, 2) preferred stockholders who hate to give up their well paying investment. Actually, Omaha is well pleased with...
Rhodes acquired much of his fortune by making it fashionable for lovers to buy their sweethearts diamond engagement rings. He himself avoided women. "Is it true," asked Queen Victoria, "that you are a woman hater, Mr. Rhodes?" "How could I hate the sex to which Your Majesty belongs?" Rhodes replied...