Word: odiously
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Einstein was once violently pacifist. In 1930 he wrote: ". . . That vilest offspring of the herd mind-the odious militia. . . ." After Hitler, his thoughts became somewhat more martial. He is also a Zionist ("The Jew is most happy if he remains a Jew"), an internationalist ("Nationalism is the measles of mankind"). Einstein claims that he is a religious man ("Every really deep scientist must necessarily have religious feeling"). But he does not believe in the immortality of the soul...
...lived] in France during all the German occupation [and who] saw them in Nice, July 1944, in the middle of the afternoon in front of all the population, hang two young Maqu's men. ... It was with tears in my eyes that I read those terrible words "Odious & Disgusting" [TIME, May 6], criticizing . . . your own boys, liberators, conquerors of all Europe ! With, as you said, only a bar of chocolate to offer, this same G.I. always gave it to an old woman, child or starving girl friend. In Nice 20,000 G.I.s came every week for a rest. They...
...Odious & Disgusting...
...branding of the average soldier's conduct as "odious and disgusting" is a slap, not at the Army, but at the American way, for the Army of World War II was a civilian Army. He expresses wonder at "how naive and stupid" were the G.I.s. . . . Perhaps the former Army chaplain has forgotten that these "illiterates from Brooklyn, Texas and Los Angeles" are the same men who made it possible for him to return to this country in peace and hand down his judgments to their discredit...
...conduct of the average soldier ... was at the least noisy and boisterous. At the worst it was criminal. The average was odious and disgusting...