Word: odiously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pierre Cardinal Gerlier, primate of the Lyon diocese, who was responsible for bringing the dying Herriot back into the church, issued a statement rejecting with indignation "the gratuitous and odious allegations . . . which dare to assert that I had taken advantage of the weakness of a diminished man." Herriot not only answered his questions in a firm voice, said the cardinal, but twice expressed "his desire for a religious funeral...
...objectionable affidavits, as well as matching each nine dollars of Federal funds with one of its own. Other Federal programs--including NSF which Harvard has administered for eight years--require only distributing application forms and sending them back to Washington. But an affidavit in one program is as odious, and as unnecessary, as in another...
...recent meeting, the CEP voted unanimously to recommend this wording, which significantly omits mention of the relatively inoffensive oath of affirmation, and concentrates only on the disclaimer affidavit, which President Pusey has termed "odious...
...what is bad is the existence of a belief among common men that intellectuals cannot be trusted as citizens. The oaths and affidavits serve, it seems, as reprimands. And to those who judge the reprimands wrongly directed they have also seemed insults, as the language of the protests ("offensive," "odious") indicates...
...this affidavit is odious, an unwarranted restriction upon academic freedom of discussion within the educational process, a dangerous precedent for action on the part of the Federal Government, and unnecessary for the protection of the security of our country... Resolution of The Faculty Senate...