Word: loath
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...only Germany's No. 1 composer. As one of the two most eminent composers in the world today (the other is Finland's Jean Sibelius), he is Naziland's No. 1 cultural exhibit. Even though he is a bad boy the Third Reich is loath to spank...
Observers guessed that the naval drive up the river would remain feeble simply because the Army was loath to support it. Japanese Army commanders have no desire to shift their operations from the rail lines, roadways and comparatively solid soil of north central China to the rail-less, roadless, boggy footpath country of the upper Yangtze Valley just to aid the Navy to a victory. More likely the Army will settle down in its present position, hold its drive on Hankow until the floodwaters seep into the ground...
Would you be kind enough to advise me as quickly as possible as to whether there is any market whatsoever for my perpetual subscription to TIME? . . . While I never intended to dispose of it, indeed I am very loath to do so, unfortunate circumstances have forced me to liquidate virtually all of my most prized possessions, including this, perhaps the most satisfying investment of my career...
...Though in the past 46 years some $20,000,000 has been spent on Manhattan's great Episcopal Cathedral of St. John the Divine, world's largest cathedral (in cubic capacity), neither its exterior nor interior has been completed. Astute Bishop William Thomas Manning, not loath to identify the cathedral with New York's forthcoming World's Fair, has launched a campaign to raise $1,000,000 to finish the interior so that Fairgoers may worship there. At present, services are held not in the finished Gothic nave but in the crossing, at the intersection...
...college publications are over-cautious in their approach, on the other hand, if they are loath to expose existing evils or to oppose their college in matters of policy, they again lose their value. Indeed this failing, this trend toward the inconsequential, is all too manifest in contemporary college journalism...