Word: disgust
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...accordance with the Geneva agreement? Like hell they will. What they will do is send out a couple of phony battalions of peasants, accompanied by a few of their better-known cadres. They probably want the cadres to take refresher courses in the north anyway." He shrugged in disgust and despair...
...part of the estate of Founder E. W. Scripps and wife of hot-tempered Manchester (N.H.) Union Leader Publisher William Loeb, wired S-H executives: "[Woltman's] smearing of Senator McCarthy [is] rotten, biased journalism, which would make my grandfather, E. W. Scripps . . . turn in his grave with disgust and shame." Added Mrs. Loeb and her husband in a telegram direct to Woltman: "We are ashamed of ever having known...
...quits. Almost before Tony Aquista's body had cooled, the detective was poking into as sordid a mess as hardened mystery addicts could reasonably ask for. Macdonald's blend of sex and sadism includes marijuana, incest and adultery. That the mixture stops well this side of disgust is a tribute to his nice sense of realism, an adult way of conveying that life is sometimes like this, but no need to leer...
With Audubon in Arkansas Sir: ... It was with some shock and disgust that I read in your June 21 issue the appellation, "John McClellan, the old Arkansas buzzard." I do not know Senator McClellan . . . except what I have seen and heard . . . during the McCarthy hearings...
...statistics: 187 hours in session during 36 days; 2,000,000 words transcribed onto 7,424 pages; 27 witnesses and a cumulative total of 115,000 spectators in the hearing room; and $1,250,000 in TV costs. The results: much public disgust, some public education, especially on the subject of how Senator Joe McCarthy operates...