Word: loath
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Controversial." The Minute Women's protests were remarkably effective. "Many public officials," reported O'Leary, "who might . . . defy a lone organization . . . would be loath to go against the wishes of 500 individuals." The Quakers' American Friends Service Committee was refused one meeting hall after a protest that "Alger Hiss attended a . . . Quaker meeting." Dr. Rufus E. Clement, president of Atlanta University and the first Negro ever to become a member of the present Atlanta Board of Education, was invited to lecture at a Houston Methodist church. Minute Women joined in a loud protest that...
While the totalitarian threat emphasizes the worth of American political values, the contributors fear the demand for uncritical affirmation of American society and culture. Essential to creative activity is freedom to criticize without fear, the right to love one aspect of America and to loath another. Such criticism represents a more productive commitment to a society than unquestioning acceptance. For creative achievement, the lingering sense of intellectual alienation is a necessity...
...Tito's first wife was a Russian girl whom he met while in Omsk during the Russian civil war. She was loath to return with him to Yugoslavia, finally consented, only to leave him ten years later (in 1929) when he refused to settle down and give up his revolutionary activities. She is said to have died in Russia some time in the late '30s. The second wife, Herta, whom Tito married in 1939, was taken prisoner four years later by Yugoslavia's pro-Nazi quisling government. Tito, head of the Partisan government in the mountains, bailed...
...into any of these, you should go down to the Classification and Assignment office as soon as you can during basic. That may not be easy; first sergeants are loath to excuse 7anybody from training and all sorts of ruses may have to be employed. Here's one gambit: he'll ask you to say yes or no about going to Officer Candidates School; tell him you can't until you check with C&A about something else you're qualified...
...tried so hard this year and succeeded in earning the respect of most people though not of the CRIMSON. I'm sorry that the CRIMSON's policy all year (with a few exceptions it's true) has been to hold a sarcastic and disinterested attitude towards the team, loath to give a word of credit when it's due. I am not a letterman so I can speak at least partially without bias...