Word: hating
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When Rome threatened a third war, Carthage asked for an embassy to consider future peace. Marcus Porcius Cato the Elder (234-149 B.C.), Roman Censor, was one of the deputies. Carthage's wealth and splendor made him fear for Rome's preëminence. He developed a mortal hate and fear of Carthage, much like the mania U. S. Senator James Thomas ("Tom-Tom") Heflin of Alabama now has against the Roman Catholic Church. Senator Cato drove his point home by concluding all his speeches with the phrase: Delenda est Carthago! ("Carthage must be destroyed!") The year Cato died, Rome started...
...right to ignore underlying moral issues and to fail to distinguish between the will for peace which characterizes America and the will for war which has animated other parts of the world. . . . I know a great number of chaplains. . . . I do not know of one who does not hate war, who does not hope for the outlawry of war, who does not work and pray for peace...
...Unions, we shall face either Federal unemployment insurance [i.e. the dole] to care for the jobless or have a revolution on our hands. The country cannot stand these continual shocks. . . . The unions could help . . . but in great industrial centres like Detroit and Toledo large mass production employers seem to hate the A. F. of L. worse than the Communists. When depressions come, they throw their workers on the street. . . . If trade unions were allowed to function without the relentless opposition of large employers, they could tide their members over seasonal unemployment...
...priesthood. He married only because his confessor told him it was his duty to continue his line. There was no love between Sir Joseph and his pretty young wife- when she was seduced by the fascinating, Protestant Lord Charles Craddock his distaste for her turned to horrified hate. But he took her back, again on advice of his confessor, on condition that she should never see her illegitimate daughter. Then he made her the mother of four children. She submitted to her penitential duty, died in the last childbirth. Sir Joseph married again. Stella, the lovechild, was brought...
...peculiarities of the Deputies is that they make a hobby of inventing calumnies, not even sparing the wives and children of those whom they hate. . . . They do not realize what honor is and dignity does not exist for them. People devoted to me have asked my permission to shoot M. Trampczynski [Parliamentarian leader] and other miscreants, and when I refused them they have committed suicide...