Word: odious
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...your recent editorial "Movie Moguls-Home Grown" you enunciated two principles which I find odious, and must take issue with. These are (1) the United Nations Council and the Liberal Union are engaged in "profit-making" activities in their film ventures; and (2) that Ivy Films is the only group which has a legitimate reason for showing films on campus...
Soon Rose's job brings her to a Main Line mansion, and the Main Liners parade in their native habitat: Hume's father, a Victorian-minded patriarch who has always acted like a father "and not that odious distortion called a 'pal' "; Hume's mother, a forthright, witty woman with unpredictable ideas whose ironic attitude toward inheritance taxes is: "We'd be better off if we could take the taxes and let the government have the inheritance"; Hume's nephew, who wants a job to prove that, despite his wealth...
...order such a meal, a customer has to have more crust than a Bowery mission pie. But some of the owners and waiters have worked out a defensive "treatment" for such diners. As soon as they hear the odious order, waiters snatch the tablecloth from the table and the napkin from the diner's lap. The table is set with chipped crockery and kitchen silverware. Then, aiming at the kitchen and rearing back, a waiter bellows at the top of his voice: "Menú econímico for one!" That attracts the attention of everyone in the dining room...
...Directed the new, 15-member Committee on Government Contracts to begin enforcing no-discrimination clauses in federal contracts with private employers. Within the Federal Government, said the President, "tolerance of inequality would be odious...
...primary concern is not with the technical or legal points involved in these investigations, which may or may not uncover the fact that certain individuals have belonged to odious but not illegal groups, or subscribed to a philosophy we find abhorrent...