Word: odiously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Publication Board advised the editors to avoid "facetiousness" in editorials, to allott less space to the controversy and to use good judgment on controversial issues. The editors did not find these restrictions odious and the Regents now reserved comment...
Sister, farewell, and remember that modesty, as it makes the most homely virgin amiable and charming, so the want of it renders the most perfect beauty disagreeable and odious. But when that brightest of female virtues shines among other perfections of body and mind in the same person, it makes the woman more lovely than an angel...
...Soviet government." Among the victims named: Sergo Ordzhonikidze. "The accused took part in collecting incriminating evidence against Ordzhonikidze . . . Later, terrorist acts of violence were committed against members of [his] family and nearest friends." Motive for the murders: "The accused helped Beria hide his criminal past and his odious deception of party and government, and [destroyed] those persons who Beria feared could expose...
...incorruptible Professor walked . . . averting his eyes from the odious multitude of mankind. He had no future. He disdained it. He was a force . . . He walked frail, insignificant, shabby, miserable-and terrible in the simplicity of his idea calling madness and despair to the regeneration of the world. Nobody looked at him. He passed on unsuspected and deadly, like a pest in a street full...
...Nobody wanted to volunteer forthe odious duty," wrote a Japanese diplomat about the surrender on the Missouri. "The Prime Minister . . . was considered unsuitable because he was the Emperor's uncle . . . [The] Vice Premier . . . shunned the ordeal. Finally, the mission was assigned to Foreign Minister Shigemitsu." He was the little Japanese who stumped into history ten years ago this week, grotesque in frock coat and topper amid the tieless suntans of MacArthur's conquerors, to sign the surrender papers and take his nation's disgrace upon his bowed shoulders. One U.S. general recalled: "The Japanese plenipotentiary...