Word: odiously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...personal actions of officers have been the most obvious cause of resentment by the E.M. ... If an officer becomes particularly odious, his superiors merely transfer him. ... Punishment of officers is considered oldfashioned...
...Paris' Figaro, a letter writer pleaded with U.S. soldiers: "We pray you refuse these monstrous prices which are the leftover of an odious black market whose death we want. . . . You may succeed better than...
...precious metals. According to one legend they sank to the bottom of Lake Nemi with all hands aboard except Caligula, who was something of a practical joker. According to another legend they were stripped, allowed to rot and sink by successors to whom even the memory of Caligula was odious. For some 1900 years they remained faintly visible in about 60 feet of water. From the 15th Century on, people tried to raise them, merely succeeded in damaging them with grappling hooks. From the 16th Century on, divers brought to the surface excited reports and portable relics...
...souls of moviegoers." But Academy President Walter Wanger (producer husband of Joan Bennett), with only a bit part on the program, got the biggest hand. He put aside his scheduled talk, and attacked the Alliance: "Let's keep the record straight. We, too, find home-grown communism as odious as home-grown fascism. . . . [But we do not] intend to be misled by the familiar Hitler line by which communism is made the bogey . . . to confuse...
Industry Wonders. At the last minute, Franklin Roosevelt decided against entrusting the new policy to the War Labor Board or Fanny Perkins' Department of Labor, handed the odious job of enforcement to War Manpower Commissioner Paul V. McNutt. Unprepared for the backbreaking job, Paul McNutt was by no means ready with all the answers. Swiftly he moved to make the new rule apply to 32 critical labor-shortage areas, later included 102 others...