Word: odiously
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...relatively small apportionment of loan fund money and has been pleased to have it," Pusey pointed out. However, he emphasized the compliance of students has been obtained "at the expense of their own self-respect," and stated strongly that Kenendy's committee should recommend the "elimination of this odious section...
...accept money under the act. Other schools are accepting funds but protesting the oaths. Presidents Nathan Pusey of Harvard and A. Whitney Griswold of Yale praised Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Arthur Flemming for criticizing the oaths, and Griswold wrote: "In our eyes, such measures are at best odious symbols, at worst a potential threat to our profession . . . Belief cannot be coerced or compelled." Other institutions whose heads object to the provision: Colby, Bates, Bowdoin, the University of Wisconsin and Atlanta's Emory University...
...handed Argentina to Frondizi through necessity rather than choice. If the dictator had let his blank-vote order stand, it would have opened the door to odious comparisons between the impressive total he chalked up in July and an almost certainly less impressive total last week. He could not back Balbin, who was likely to carry on the anti-Perón policies of Provisional President Pedro Aramburu. Frondizi, who openly wooed Peronista votes, was the only possible choice...
...added: "And now I challenge the Republican chairman to tell us where he stands on Eisenhower and Nixon!" The crowd came to its feet, alive, roaring and stomping its approval: Jack Kennedy had won it by his own display of courage and by turning all good Democrats against the odious Republicans. He was still a long, hard way from the Democratic nomination, but he had broken through a major roadblock...
...hear them tell about it back home, nothing is more odious to the governors of the several states than the concentration of power in Washington. But last week, gathered at historic Williamsburg, Va. for the 49th annual Governors' Conference, they heard President Eisenhower propose that the Federal Government should relinquish some of its responsibilities in favor of the states. The governors reacted as though he were trying to hand them a sockful of scorpions...