Word: odiously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Raising his voice to his high oratorical pitch, Castro cried again that he was a Communist ("We reaffirm that we are Marxist-Leninists"), bitterly attacked the U.S. ("repugnantly shameful, criminal, odious") and Colombia's Lleras Camargo ("that bilious character") for leading the diplomatic moves against him. But his real message seemed to be to those Latin American nations who might be wondering about his own intentions. Castro swore that his new arms were not for export, and in the favorite nobody-here-but-us-chickens rhetoric of Communism added: "We know that only the peoples themselves can carry...
...John's Chapel, in spite of an incongruous order yesterday from the Cambridge police that publicity material affixed to telephone poles must be removed immediately to improve Cambridge's appearance. Said director Richard Corum '62, "We will strain every nerve to comply with city regulations. We ourselves find flyers odious...
...subsidizing. Despite numerous demands that Harvard refuse to accept funds with a loyalty stigma, Pusey originally continued the University's participation in the NDEA program and stated that he "applauds the high motives which prompted Congress to pass the... Act." At the same time, he labeled the loyalty provision "odious...
...selecting good men for vital jobs. "It is a political process by which judges are selected," explains Whizzer White. "The President nominates them. The Senate Judiciary Committee holds hearings on them. The Senate confirms them. But this is a political process in the broad sense, not in any odious sense. This is our system of government...
Censorship in all forms is naturally an odious thing, but in this case the presumptuousness of an American President who wants to keep his life his own is absolutely inexcusable...