Word: disgust
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cabled TIME'S Hong Kong Bureau Chief Robert Neville last week: "Red China is in deep trouble. Early enthusiasm for the Red regime has now turned to sullen resentment, distrust and despair. The educated and the articulate seem to shrink away in shame and disgust from events over which they can have no control. If those Chinese who escape to Hong Kong are judges, a widespread disaffection has set in. Many people are certain that were it not for the secret police and the firing squad, hatred for the Peking government would soon spark into action...
After the second bankruptcy, B. & O. General Solicitor Cassius Clay (an ex-RFC lawyer), resigned in disgust, was joined by another B. & O. lawyer. Said 'lay after he quit: the loans were a "gigantic steal," a "frame-up" and a "fraud." The bankruptcy, said the Tobey report, did more than postpone payment of the loan. It enabled the railroad to convert the notes held by RFC into non-salable bonds, hence left RFC with a frozen loan rather than a live claim on the B. & O.'s assets. Once converted, RFC's collateral Dehind its loans...
Matteo's initial reaction to Angelo is disgust and repulsion; he tries to prove that his wife committed adultery, and that therefore he is not legally responsible for the child. But an old cynical lawyer tells him that before God the mulatto is his equal, and before...
...Washington had more complex explanations. McCormick was apparently fed up with Bazy's autocratic way of running his newspaper. During her reign, nearly a dozen loyal, valuable T-H veterans had quit in disgust ("No matter what you may think of Colonel McCormick's policies," said one of them, "he is a wonderful boss. People just don't leave the Chicago Tribune . . ."). The T-H had fallen behind rivals in circulation and advertising increases...
...been asked to do, but he realized that as the 1952 presidential campaign drew nearer, pressure would grow to finance the government campaign out of the Treasury, as it was financed more or less in 1948. Said Havana's newspaper Alerta: "Bosch took office to the profound disgust of the politicians, and leaves accompanied by their broad smiles as they wait outside the ministry doors to assault the Treasury he guarded...