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...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...
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...