Word: hating
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Arturo Toscanini did, from hate of Mussolini, what Hollywood could not persuade him to do for love or money. He made his first movie. In a short for foreign distribution he belabored old enemies with the words he wrote last year for Verdi's Hymn of the Nations ("Italy betrayed...
...situation less desperate in Poland. Polish patriots may have no love for the Russians; for the Nazi despoiler they have only hate. And the Communist-dominated underground in eastern Poland may prove to be as effective as were Russia's guerrilla "armies of the forest...
...interrupts a comment on Englishmen-"I too love the earth and hate the world"-and in these words remembers a scene at home in Avila: "The broad valley remains visible with its checkerboard of ploughed fields and straggling poplars lining the straight roads, or clustered along the shallow pools by the river; and at night, in the not too distant mountains, the shepherds' fires twinkle like nether stars...
...bright, moonlit nights; sailors detest them. The Navy's ideal for an invasion is a dark night, with a light breeze and fair visibility. Next best is a full moon, shrouded with clouds so that just enough light filters through to maneuver ships & men. But the sailors especially hate fog; though it provides cover against the enemy, it hampers naval gunnery, endangers crowded shipping, grounds friendly airmen...
Publicity campaigns have flopped. The services got a first rush of recruits from the bored, the adventure-loving, the extraordinarily patriotic and the economically depressed. Among the rest, the majority, no kind of publicity ever got beyond first base. Women, who hate regimentation, refused to be persuaded of the country's need of them. Significant was a Gallup report on the best publicity approach: "self-interest by inference...