Word: hating
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...During the last big hate I served four years, mostly on sea duty, with thousands of navy enlistees who are still of draft...
...usual, canny Getulio was in no hurry to commit himself. From Rio Grande do Sul, the old man issued his first post-election statement. Said Getulio: "I come to power with a heart clean of hate and resentment ... I bow before a triumph which has been less mine than that of the Brazilian people." Aside from talking vaguely about forming a coalition or perhaps a British-style labor government, that was about all he said...
...hate to do it," McCarthy said, "but complaints of many Cambridge residents have forced us to start to move." The complaints were lodged mainly against cars parked in front of driveways, but included protests from people who "just thought students made too much noise...
...disappeared without trace during a P-38 reconnaissance flight to Southern France. He was 44. In a letter found later among his papers, he had written: "I hate this century with all my heart...
...Author Mary McCarthy from a sharp satirist into a hollow groaner. Taut little early McCarthy opuses such as The Man in the Brooks Brothers Shirt and Portrait of the Intellectual as a Yale Man would never have let a female character get away with a remark like "Ah, you hate it because it is mine. You would like to see it all go to ruin." Still less could an earlier McCarthy character have murmured to herself, "She would leave him, she thought, as soon as the petunias had bloomed." But The Weeds, first of the four short stories that make...