Word: odiously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...onetime French collaborator who had become America's friend, or America's tool, or perhaps America's moral Frankenstein (see p. 24). The nation heard Franklin Roosevelt's angry reaction: ". . . first-degree murder." It listened to good grey Secretary of State Cordell Hull: ". . . an odious and cowardly act." But many Americans did not know whether to be horrified or relieved, and their not knowing was a heavy burden...
Here's a theory about why "Iceland" was ever produced. It's a plot on the part of the writers to prove that all obnoxious characters don't wear Nazi uniforms, as well as an attempt to see how many odious individuals they can get into one picture. They've succeeded so well that the result is a wonderful argument for sad endings in the movies...
Without so much as a diplomatic hesitation, the U.S. told Vichyfrance last week that a spade is a spade. When flabby, sinister Pierre Laval protested to the U.S. Chargé d'Affairs, S. Pinkney Tuck, that the U.S. bombings of Rouen and Havre were "odious aggression," Mr. Tuck did not even pretend to wait for an answer from Washington. Then & there, he told Laval that the U.S. did not aim to kill Frenchmen but all factories in Occupied France operated by or for Germany "would be bombed at every opportunity in the future...
What the peoples of other countries will want from us are supplies of food, grains, seeds, farm implements, household supplies, clothing materials and much else. Let us give these in great abundance, but spare them our odious presence as rulers of their lands...
...result of the riot, said Dr. Heaton, a law was passed the following year prohibiting "the odious practice of digging up . . . dead bodies" for dissection. In its stead there sprang up a bootleg body-snatching racket run by ancient gangsters who did not hesitate to make their own corpses when none were available. It was not until 1854 that a New York law was passed granting unclaimed bodies in public morgues to medical schools. Body snatching in some other parts of the U.S. persisted until the 20th Century, by which time laws similar to New York State's were...