Word: hating
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Collapsing Coalition. Despise was hardly the word. The Communists mortally hate and fear aging (68) Field Marshal Alexander Papagos, who in 1949, with U.S. help, defeated the Communists on the battlefield. Greece's No. 1 military hero (commander in chief of Greek forces in World War II) might long ago have been Greece's No. 1 political leader but for a personal quarrel with King Paul. His Greek Rally Party polled the largest number of seats in the last election, but the King snubbed the Field Marshal and handed the government to a coalition of Plastiras Progressives...
Almost two decades of Harvard Freshmen have learned to hate the buildings erected at Cambridge St. and Broadway. Since 1934, no man's sleep has been safe, as the doughty firemen race out to one of the 1,000 odd alarms that the Central fire House answers yearly...
...kept score of his cliches; but Eisenhower somehow can get away with cliches. When he says "I love this land," or "I am one of you," the words do not sound empty. (Although Ike could never approach Franklin Roosevelt's ability to make a cliche-e.g., "I hate war"-sound like a revelation...
...among modern poets -"we're wonderful one times one" is a reiterated theme. "I have no sentimentality at all. If you haven't got that you're not afraid to write about love and death," he says. In a time when it is he fashionable to hate one's mother and father, he has written: if there are any heavens my mother will (all by herself) have one . . . and in recent years, at readings he has given, he has included a long elegy on his father, the late Rev. Edward Cummings, a Unitarian minister and sometime...
...Moore begins to orate for the Republican ticket. First he softens the crowd up with references to their homeland. (You've got to be careful not to say the wrong thing," Moore says. "For instance, you don't praise Jan Masaryk in front of a Slovak group--the Slovaks hate the Czech's guts.") Then relates the near and dear to his subject ("Garibaldi was a Republican, too.") Often Moore flavors his speech with some phrases in the native tongue...