Word: odiously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...original view of the part in the essay "On Playing the Role of Shylock," which he wrote for the 1958 Laurel edition of the work, and which I highly recommend. Carnovsky's 1967 Shylock is a considerably less sympathetic figure than the 1957 one, though by no means thoroughly odious. This change is quite in keeping with Kahn's new approach to the rest of the dramatis personae...
...Terre Haute last week, he called the roll of evils he is against: big government, Communism, crime, the Supreme Court, federal civil rights legislation and "intellectual morons," an apparently large group of citizens that seems to include professors, liberals, editors, beatniks, Vietniks, and anyone else who finds Wallace odious and is either a college graduate or would allow his daughter to marry...
...Communists succeed in their aggression," said Thai Premier Thanom Kittikachorn, "we would be the next target. This action is being taken in direct defense of Thailand." Thailand turned a deaf ear to Hanoi's raucous denunciation of this "new and odious act of treason by the reactionary Thailand government clique." After all, about a third of the guerrillas who are operating in its northeast are Vietnamese who have slipped across the Mekong River from Communist redoubts in Laos to join Chinese-trained Thais and some members of the Pathet Lao in spreading terror through the region...
Mungo said that the Board is "particularly odious" because any vote always comes out "with three undergraduates against everyone else." He feels that however well-intentioned the other eight members of the board are, they can be easily misled on undergraduate affairs...
...landing craft and so on. To oppose the plan, one had to invoke intangibles-the moral position of the United States, the reputation of the President, the response of the United Nations, 'world public opinion' and other such odious concepts...