Word: odiously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While there, she gets just mad enough to cry. The episode might be more affecting if Ruth Gordon had not made Mrs. Lord just as odious as her Goneril-and-Regan duo of daughters. As every contemporary playgoer knows, the family is an heir-conditioning unit: bitches beget bitches. The denouement is embarrassing, as Mrs. Lord marries one of those beamish Balkan boys with a rich grandmother fixation...
...delegates to Brighton, representing nearly 9,000,000 union members, it was an odious choice. But in the end, Wilson's urging carried the day by a margin of 2,000,000 votes: local unions bound themselves to submit in advance all demands for wage increases to the T.U.C.'s General Council, not to press them on management until-and unless-the T.U.C. approved the wage claims as within the government's anti-inflationary guidelines. The margin was thanks largely to T.U.C. General Secretary George Woodcock's plea that Wilson's demand was the lesser...
Section 14(b) gives to the states the right to enact their own right-to-work laws banning union-shop contracts. Nineteen states* have done that, and of the entire Taft-Hartley law, 14(b) has become the section most odious to labor leaders. As a Congressman, Lyndon Johnson voted for Taft-Hartley and to override President Truman's veto. But last year, as he set out to gather votes from every segment of U.S. society, he made clear to A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany that he would seek repeal of 14(b), saw to it that the pledge...
...anti-American, I thank you for your rotten article devoted to my person in your issue of May 7. Your insult to a head of state and your odious lies dishonor not only your magazine but also your nation...
...Conrad; but brother, if you're against The Sound of Music, you're the lowest of the low. If I had beaten my mother to a pulp, strangled my small child, and slit the throat of my little puppy dog, I wouldn't have seemed so odious...