Word: hating
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...endorse most heartily the letter . . . by Arlan Baillie in your Letters Column, TIME, Dec. 7. Had I an 18-year-old boy in service I'd certainly hate to see him in Lieut. General McNair's command. And now, according to the Los Angeles Times, Dec. 4, there's a plan afoot to register the 14-year-olds for military training! Why not ten or twelve-year-olds, or can't they learn to hate that early...
...Philip B. Lorenz (TIME Letters, Dec. 7), in commenting on General McNair's words . . . advances a disturbing philosophy, when he says: "In the biological world we find the first necessity is to develop an unalterable hate for guinea pigs, rabbits, and other animals which it is our business to kill...
...academic training under a number of top-flight biologists, have I heard such nonsense. Our business is not to kill animals. When, in order to increase the store of knowledge which may improve the lot of the animal Homosapiens, it is essential that we do so, any feeling of hate for these relatively defenseless creatures is totally absent from most, and I sincerely hope from all, of us. Rather, as perfectly obvious from shop talk in any group involving as many as two biologists, we entertain rather marked affection and often great respect for the animals it is necessary...
...picture has its Woolley moments, however. One of them comes when Monty, as a department-store Santa Claus, sucks "Alabama fog-cutters" (cocktail of unspecified ingredients) through a tube from a hot-water bottle concealed under his suit, and suddenly roars at all the kiddies and mammas: "How I hate you, one and all!" Another occurs when he stares coldly at an unwelcome female admirer (Sara Allgood) and remarks: "I have no idea what bearing it may have on your plans, but I now propose to remove my trousers...
Most eloquent opposition came from Wendell Willkie. Said he: "The U.S. has lost moral force. . . and by it, we may lose the peace. . . With all my soul I hate this false finagling with expediency...