Word: hating
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next day, the veterans of the House rallied their forces, rolled up their most impressive weapons. Michigan's Republican Charles E. Potter, 32, who lost both legs fighting in Europe, walked on artificial limbs to the well of the House. Said Potter: "I hate to see the veterans of this country used as political pawns in this great Washington game of cheat." The veterans bombarded the bill with amendments, hoping to reduce it to such a jumble that nobody could vote...
...Only five professors had flubbed badly (with 2.5 or below), while 43 got a rousing 3.6 or more from their students. At the end of the year, the teachers will be allowed to see their report cards. Some will be pleased ("This is the only class I really hate to cut"). Others will be embarrassed ("I have come to dread going to his class...
...petition to the board, Goldstein charged that the books plant "in the student in our public schools the seeds of anti-Semitism . . . [which] will pay dividends in hate, prejudice, intolerance and bigotry for generations to come." The character of Dickens' Fagin, Goldstein maintained, "holds the Jew up to ... contempt, ridicule and depicts the Jew as as fiend ... a murderer . . ." Shylock was hardly better; "the synonym for usurer, cheat . . . hater of all Christians...
From his cream-colored Beverly Hills mansion, aged (85), ailing William Randolph Hearst periodically sends down orders to the 17 daily Hearstpapers for a new blast against an old hate-the vivisection of animals by medical scientists. Hearstlings dutifully grind out editorials and cartoons assailing vivisectionists as "dog torturers" who experiment on animals for the joy of "seeing them suffer...
...that is practically flippant compared with the attack that laid "Allegro" low, it is nonetheless a blotch, a mar, a flaw. And the song that does most of the moralizing, called "You've Got To Be Taught"--the full line is "You've got to be taught to hate"--is as unnecessary as it is didactic. It simply repeats in italics an idea that has already been made in a succinct and non-moralistic way by the events of the story...