Word: heinously
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...adoption of a draft declaration on the mass media that many Western diplomats and journalists consider a grave threat to press freedom. The document is based on a similar resolution proposed at UNESCO's 1970 meeting by the Soviets and rewritten since then to eliminate some of its more heinous features. Yet the present 1,500-word version still contains several provisions with chillingly Orwellian overtones. One would endorse government licensing of journalists. Another would compel news organizations to print official replies to stories a government deems unfair...
...stories are true classics. One such involves a guy who was taking an exam in Mem Hall (and cheating on it), who walked up to turn in his blue book only to be told by the proctor that the gig was up, for he had been nailed committing his heinous crime...
...would be comforting if it were safe to adopt a humorous tolerance toward even the most heinous ideas and their proponents. Unfortunately, there must always be a "watch on the Rhine," whether it be in Europe or on the shores of Lake Michigan...
A.C.L.U. dilemma: defending "hateful and heinous " ideas...
...gives the film makers high marks for pleasantness of temperament, one must also charge them with that most heinous of show-biz crimes: dullness relieved only by an occasional flight of vapidity...