Word: disgust
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bombay," he told his audience, "Congress is permitting the erection of a factory where hundreds of cows will be killed ... to solve the food problem. The cow is like our mother. Perhaps Congress will next suggest that we should kill our mothers and eat them." The voters howled in disgust at such a wicked thing, not knowing that there are in fact no such plans afoot. "The slavery of the British was a thousand times better than the Freedom of today," the candidate went on. "I swear by the Goddess Chamunda that if elected I will continue to serve...
...delivery is still there, as good or better than ever: the perfectly timed twitch of the brows; the play of the luminous brown eyes?now rolling with naughty thoughts, now staring through the spectacles with only half-amused contempt; the acidulous, faint smile; the touch of fuming disgust in the voice ("That's as shifty an answer as I ever heard") ; above all, the effrontery...
...extremely unpleasant to find that the only man at Harvard who is currently discussing athletic policy in public is engaged in advocating even more of the emphasis which has already aroused national disgust...
...read with disgust Hal Roach Jr.'s assessment of American intelligence. He makes a bald statement that the average televiewer has an even lower I.Q. than the moviegoer [TIME, Oct. 29]. It seems to me that he indicts himself and his staff. I take it Mr. Roach and his kind will continue to press the national I.Q. still lower, to satisfy a sponsor's demand...
...daybreaks, almost 100 reporters clambered up the mountainsides and stood in five-inch snow, peering towards the test site at Frenchman's Flat, waiting for a blast. By last week, when the first big explosion finally came, one-third of the correspondents had given up in disgust. By week's end, all but a handful had gone...