Word: loath
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Blind Alleys (Thomas Meighan). The bride is carried off by gunmen. The bridegroom, loath to part, pursues. There are reels of his bursting into rooms from which she has just burst...
Italy. Premier Mussolini was silent; the Pope looked with favor upon the plan. Italy, whose need for submarines is great, will certainly be loath to indulge in any wholesale scrapping of them...
...unaware of unrest in the granges, but loath to ask any large measure of farm legislation from Congress, the President let it be known that he expects Agronomist* Jardine, Secretary of Agriculture, to evolve a plan to dispose of surplus farm crops...
...take such a state of affairs lying down. Since the U.S. vigorously discourages European nations from intervening on the American continent under the Monroe Doctrine, it might well become highly expedient for the U.S. to intervene in Mexico in the interests of the Great Powers, even were the Administration loath to intervene on behalf of U.S. nationals alone...
...mystery: no wonder Lampy hesitates to talk about first causes. Lampy's simple statement that a note somebody passed in classroom brought him forth, is even more at odds with nature than a virgin birth. Therefore, the CRIMSON, who remembers well the scandal incident to Lampy's birth, is loath to let the matter pass without revealing what was known and what suspected at the time...