Word: disgust
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would like to take serious objection and express my deep disgust with the cover . . . To portray China and her many people as a swarm of insects represents to me a new low in journalism...
CAPT. "WHISTLIN' JOE" ROGERS, 26, of the 36th Squadron, Eighth Fighter-Bomber Group, had probably killed more North Koreans and Chinese than any other flyer. During World War II, to his disgust, he had been an instructor, saw no combat. He had made up for it in Korea. Air Force men liked to talk about Joe's exploits- his trick of barrel-rolling when he came in for a strafing run, the time he attached a whistle to one of his wings to scare the enemy, thus earned his nickname. The story they liked best...
When, at last, the tired, bedraggled brigade did fight its way clear, the Turks marched 50 miles down the road to Pyongyang, carrying their wounded on their backs, pointing in disgust at the direction they were headed, and repeating over & over again: "The general's orders . . . the general's orders...
...into the Hi-Lo Oil Co. building 1) tried without success to open up the cash register, the cigarette machine, the soft-drink machine; 2) tried to drive away with a trailer truck which jackknifed; 3) placed two long distance telephone calls and found nobody home; 4) quit in disgust...
...breach in the union of these colleges. Some three or four of the better-known Ivy League schools have come to look down on the other member colleges. This "looking down" is something more and beyond mere rivalry; it is more in the nature of a deep-rooted disgust...