Word: odiously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Odious! In woollen! T'would a saint provoke...
...American radio is carrying out an odious witch hunt against the Negro population . . . The idea of racial discrimination is being forcibly inculcated into youth and the aged...
...lives on inherited income and putters about the suburbs of literature. As the child of zealous Philadelphia Quakers (his father was a glass manufacturer), little Logan fell in love with religion at the age of four and for the next few years became, as he later put it, an "odious little prig" who would clamber aboard horse cars handing out tracts and asking people if they had been saved. Before long he lost his faith; never again would he so thoroughly commit his emotions to an interest outside himself...
Today at Harvard there are numerous groups engaged in subverting the institutions and customs which have made Harvard, in the past, a unique institution in which the student was able to lead a gracious (if he wished) and independent life, free from the odious customs of the gum-chewing public. One of the most disadvantageous changes at Harvard has been the gradual and insidious insertion of Radcliffe into the Harvard scene. It is becoming more evident every day that Harvard will soon be no more than another co-ed school, saturated with spurious and degrading self-identification with the symbols...
...time, a few countries are experimenting with what amounts to small scale integration. Holland and Belgium have such an arrangement, and Italy and France are discussing one. Europeans are constantly worried about what they are going to do when Marshall Plan aid stops. A European economic union now appears odious, but it may be the only long-run solution...