Word: odiously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...elaborate cross-examination on his beliefs, friends, and support of liberal causes in the committee's effort to break him down. Mr. Justice Black has said that "Test oaths are notorious tools of tyranny. When used to shackle the mind they are, or at least should be, unspeakably odious to a free people." The hearings accentuate the evil...
Although newspapers are exempted from the law, editors protested that it was an infringement of freedom of the press. The law, said Odom Fanning, president of the Atlanta chapter of the journalism fraternity, Sigma Delta Chi, "could be used to bring about 'thought control,' the odious practice [of] all dictatorships...
...respected. What makes a writer and what makes him a success is, in my opinion, solely his personality. Whether it's good or bad, it's necessary to have a personality. Every day I get letters from people I don't know. Some find my personality odious, others like it very much...
...Element of Morality? In London, Templer's action provoked a storm. "Lamentable," said the Observer. "Odious," said the Manchester Guardian. In the House of Lords, Lord Stansgate was reminded of the notorious Black & Tans, and said acidly: "It is not a bad idea to introduce an element of morality when you are trying to govern a country." Said Lord Listowel: "Collective punishment will turn many people, including the Chinese . . . into Communist sympathizers...
Back in Washington as Assistant Secretary of State, Welles arranged for U.S. recognition, a quota for Cuba in the U.S. sugar market, and abrogation of the odious Platt Amendment, which gave the U.S. the right to intervene to keep order in Cuba. Though Batista had endless trouble finding the right President (he tried out seven in seven years, and finally took over the job himself), order and prosperity gradually returned to the island...