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Word: odiously (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...urged, that this maintenance of separate schools tends to deepen and perpetuate the odious distinction of caste, founded in a deep rooted prejudice in public opinion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sarah Roberts | 10/3/1956 | See Source »

...regravitation of Communist Tito into the Soviet orbit was highly perceptive, and displayed a rare insight into the subtleties of the new Kremlin approach to international relations. Americans must grasp the uncomfortable fact that Khrushchev is attacking the U.S. on its own grounds. By seeking to shed the most odious stigma attached to modern Communism, i.e., Stalinism, Russia purports to have seized the initiative in assuming a constructive, nonaggressive attitude toward the world's tensions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 2, 1956 | 7/2/1956 | See Source »

Strongman Gustavo Rojas Pinilla last week ceremoniously founded a Third Force political movement for Colombia, the only country in South America that has preserved until now the once-standard two-party system. As Rojas explained it, the Third Force will make no pitch for support from the "odious politicians" and the "oligarchs" of the historic Liberal and Conservative Parties. Rather it will stand, like the old Peronista Party in Argentina, on two legs: labor and the army...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLOMBIA: Third Force | 6/25/1956 | See Source »

...urged, that this maintenance of separate schools tends to deepen and perpetuate the odious distinction of caste, founded in a deep rooted prejudice in public opinion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sarah Roberts | 6/14/1956 | See Source »

Your cover was degraded by that nauseating, odious, ignoble, villainous picture of that venomous, Negro-hating "gentleman" known as James O. Eastland. That imperialistic background in the picture was hideous and signified the serfdom of the South...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 16, 1956 | 4/16/1956 | See Source »

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