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Word: loathing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...contrary [April 26], Colorado River water backed up by the Glen Canyon Dam will endanger Rainbow Natural Bridge. The bridge and its foundations are sandstone, and sandstone absorbs water irrespective of planned diversion dams and tunnels. As a member of the discovery party, Aug. 14, 1909, I am loath to see that masterpiece destroyed, whatever the excuse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 3, 1963 | 5/3/1963 | See Source »

...future is far darker for the Asians in East Africa, who have long formed a precarious middle class. Despised by color-conscious whites, whom they greatly outnumber (400,000 to 96,000), resented by East Africa's 25 million blacks, the Asians -mostly Indians and Pakistanis-are loath to return to homelands that few have seen, and where jobs are already critically scarce. For the great majority of Asians, there is no other alternative but to stay on in an increasingly hostile Africa where, as one Western diplomat succinctly said recently, they are "the hard upper rung against which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: East Africa: The Asians in Their Midst | 3/15/1963 | See Source »

...flew with a friar in his arms, and once, according to some not unimpeachable sources, he flew about 70 yds., picked up a 36-ft. cross that ten men could not lift, and stood it upright "as if it were a straw." Naturally enough, the Franciscans were not loath to display their miracle man; naturally enough, other orders were jealous and denounced Father Giuseppe as a would-be Messiah. His last years were spent in close seclusion and continual rapture. "And what is it," he was once asked, "that souls in rapture see?" He replied: "They feel as though they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Saint Who Could Fly | 12/7/1962 | See Source »

...parried; but my hands were loath and cold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Modern Masterwork | 11/30/1962 | See Source »

Stephenson was a starting end before his injury in the Holy Cross game, but replacement Pat Young has done such a superb job that Yovicsin is loath to move him back. Stephenson will probably play on the Minuteman line Saturday...

Author: By Joseph M. Russin, | Title: Penn Victory Was a Costly Affair | 11/6/1962 | See Source »

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