Word: odious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...American people want the truth. Here it is. We are trying to free Mexico from the odious and inhuman tyranny of the dictator who has made robots of the President, the Cabinet and other creations out of his bag of tricks...
...When the odious "subcommittee" ghost had been pretty well laid, it was revealed that for almost a week previously John Pierpont Morgan had been sitting in on an informal group chairmanned by Baron Revelstoke, the softspoken, intensely aristocratic tycoon who heads the great British banking firm of Baring Brothers...
...Paris' name, however, became known. Bourgeois neighbors were scandalized to discover that quiet M. Anatole Deibler was also the phantasmagoric M. de Paris, that he made his living by odious matutinal decapitations...
...Odious. Detestable...
...these typical verses were of a self-evidently odious and detestable nature, TIME would expect both Mohammedans and Buddhists to join with TIME in holding them up to general odium and detestation...