Word: disgust
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This intense concern with the near mythical "scholar-athlete" has, however filled some officials with disgust. They are tired of actively seeking after this elusive "glamour-boy" and feel that many a student who doesn't handle a pigskin with an particular adoptness is being ignored and shoved into the shadows...
...Unshared Disgust. The top men of the Taft organization didn't seem to share Ingraham's disgust. Campaign Manager David Sinton Ingalls, who with Southern Strategist B. Carroll Reece had been in Mineral Wells through it all, said: "We can't have Democrats telling us who to nominate." Bob Taft said the factional fight in Texas existed long before...
...What is needed leanings. In the U.S., educators became more & more absorbed with the equally radical ideas of Columbia's John Dewey. Even some of her own followers betrayed her: they transformed her doctrine of guided freedom into a doctrine of anarchy, and many educators turned away in disgust...
...horror he discovered that the Communists, now firmly in the saddle, considered him a Fascist because he had served in a non-Communist unit. Faced with arrest, he had to sleep in the streets, found himself a criminal in the country he had come to fight for. His disgust exceeding his fear, Orwell crossed the border into France, wrote what is still the best book on the Spanish civil...
...hero's welcome from the French Communists. Next he was sent to Moscow, where he was lionized and appointed to the Frunze Academy, the U.S.S.R.'s most important military school. Against his will, he was to be groomed for the Russian army. To his disgust he was forced to accept a new title and name: "Komisaro Piotr Antonovich...