Word: disgust
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...flesh of a neighbor, of a man or woman as familiar as the parish pump. Mingling with the steam of washing day, or with the reek of autumn bonfires, or polluting the sweetness of June, that stench . . . even in a cruel age, left behind it a memory and a disgust...
...Jersey Democratic leaders generally agreed on why they won the governorship: "Public disgust" over the scandals that had touched the New Jersey G.O.P. The last straw, they thought, was Republican Candidate Troast's admission that he had asked New York's Governor Thomas E. Dewey to commute the sentence of Labor Extortionist Joey Fay. Winner Meyner (rhymes with signer) disagreed heartily with the interpretation that got him headlines across the nation. He thought he had won on local issues, didn't think his victory was any reflection on the Eisenhower Administration...
...underpaid, overtaxed wage earner, it is difficult to describe my disgust at reading ''A Federal Sales Tax" [Sept...
...neatly pressed officers corps uniform on the bed and began to polish the brass buttons. Things were going to be different this year, he had decided last summer. No more demerits for cutting drill or for sloppy shoes. The next time the commanding officer shook his head in disgust, muttering about the shame of being assigned to teach Harvard men the art of war, it wouldn't be on account of Vag's dull brass or stubbly chin. If you're going to do something, do it right, Vag reasoned...
Having just completed a trying reading of the commentary accompanying the pictures in this year's Radcliffe Freshman Register we cannot help but choke back a feeling of disgust. Undoubtedly sundry Square merchants are deeply indebted, in view of the subtle plugs for their respective products. We will even venture a prediction that the bewildered freshmen will sleep more soundly this year, secure in the knowledge that, "the Harvard Typewriter Exchange is prepared to meet emergencies," all her Christmas shopping "is easily accomplished at the Upper Story on Church street," and that the Ambassador Taxi Company is waiting to relieve...