Word: disgust
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Babel tells how his dearest childhood dream was to own some pigeons. One day the excited ten-year-old is racing home with his first set of birds, when a pogrom erupts. A crippled dealer in stolen Jewish goods grabs the boy's sack, and, opening it in disgust, smashes one of the pigeons against the boy's face: "The guts of the crushed bird trickled down from my temple . . . A piece of string lay not far away, and a bunch of feathers that still breathed. My world was tiny, and it was awful...
...joined Sen. Humphrey in buttering up the Hearst newspapers. "Ave" appointed Hearst Corporation President and McCarthy's great pal, Richard Berlin, to the Saratoga Springs Commission. The job is unimportant and unpaid, but there is some honor attached to it. Words fail me to express my dismay and disgust at such hypocrisy. Has Harriman so quickly forgotten what happened to Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. when he lost his liberal support by playing up to its enemies? As for Adlai. he is intellectually far superior to any other candidate, but the reiteration of his uncertainty concerning his plans reminds...
...variety in their background, income, jobs, accent and future, there is a common feeling threading through the different levels of French youth. It is some mixture of disorientation, disgust, disinterest, disappointment and dis enchantment, all resulting in me fiance - a distrust for the powers that be. There is, lying deep down below the soil, a seed of revolt. It may never burst into violent revolution...
...people of the Lancashire mill town of Nelson have twice chosen little (5 ft.) Dickie Bland to be their mayor. "Nelson doesn't like Dickie's principles," said one townsman, "but it does like Dickie." Beyond ordaining vegetarian menus at official luncheons and showing his disgust at puffed clouds of tobacco smoke, Dickie has returned the town's trust by keeping his convictions to himself as far as possible. However, he promised, "if anything comes along .during my term as mayor that makes me feel I couldn't mix my office with my principles, I will...
Point of No Return. In Philadelphia, after ransacking the Doering and Beatty Lumber Co. for half an hour. Burglar John Queenan finally found a slip of paper inscribed with the combination to the office safe, opened the safe, found it empty, in disgust telephoned police to come and arrest...