Word: hating
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...melting pot of Arab, Kurd, Turcoman, Circassian, Armenian and a score of forgotten peoples, but of its 3,900,000 inhabitants 86% are Moslem. Besides orthodox Moslems, there are Jews, five major varieties of Christian, a sprinkling of devil worshipers and 117,000 Druses, hard-bitten mountaineers who hate Christians, are free to ignore Moslem fasts and believe that an 11th century Egyptian caliph was the last incarnation...
...patiently built up over the past ten years by Americans of all parties, all races, all occupations . . . Here is the cheapest money we spend, as long as we are talking about getting security for the United States. If we did not have this working effectively, I just would hate to guess what would be the sums I would have to ask in the defense appropriation next year...
...more than another?" His first objective is the widow Agatha, and she is more than willing. Naturally, Pia grows annoyed, so Angelo appeases her by enrolling her in his quaint little harem. Next: the girl Sylvia. The three raging libidos soon turn their energies to jealousy, then hate, and finally, Angelo's comeuppance...
Crisis of Hate. At this crisis point, Robert falls in with his religious neighbors, the Gornacs. Widowed Elisabeth Gornac emerges from a cocoon of pale respectability to mother Robert and even to further his love affair with Paula. Her grown son, Pierre, a devout Roman Catholic of a gloomy Jansenite cast, hates all that Robert stands for. Though he is pietistically given to "searching his heart, calling God to witness," and laboriously examining his motives, he nonetheless tattles to Paula about Robert's past...
...suggest basic English. It suits her bare, bleak theme. Her narrator is Erick von Lohmond of the Teutonic gentry. Too young for World War I, he grows up into one of the crudest of civil wars. The Red soldiers who come sweeping through the Baltic birch forests so hate the Czarist military system that when they capture a White officer they nail his hated epaulets to his shoulders or, because the officers had once worn white gloves, flay his hands while he still lives. "Our men were not lacking in invention either," the White narrator laconically admits...