Word: hating
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some of the freshest, as well as some of the stalest, writing in U.S. newspapers appears on the sport pages. The men who write the sport headlines hate to use a quiet word when a violent one will do. One day last week the Denver Post, refusing to admit defeat in its football headlines, found 32 ways of avoiding it: Blast, batters, murder, pastes, whip, crush, wreck, jolt, outscraps, spanks, rolls over, romps over, upsets, rout, toy, dump, bows to, tumbles, drops, trip, tops, sinks, buries, belts, wallops, wins, blanks, licks, trounces, subdues, turns back, edges...
...hate Republicans...
Actor H. B. Warner, 70, disagreed. He thinks that sound has changed things, and that times are not what they were when the silent King of Kings was made. Said he: "Where you have the actor's voice, the characterization is too concrete. I hate the idea of a real Christ talking in any motion picture. The industry has not yet reached a height where it should take such a step...
...person unconvinced of the heinousness of birth control may constitutionally vote for it, and campaign for it; the person and the organization who hate indifference to God's law should and shall fight it. Lucian C. Pariato '50 Aloya A. Michel '50 Richard A. Diroll...
...with papers, overflowing ashtrays, strange native instruments and dozens of hats (he collects them). There he has lived, ranting in a mixture of Portuguese and his fluent French, or composing quietly in a corner with a phonograph blaring in his ear. When visitors come, he can be rude ("I hate singers," he once bellowed at one he had just met), or he may entertain them for hours, playing records or showing them how he can sound three different rhythms all at once-with hands, feet and mouth...