Word: disgust
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...wide cross-section of Los Angeles citizens--black and white, community leaders as well as cops and city officials--expressed disgust with Fuhrman's remarks; many feared racial tensions in the already riven city would increase. Police Chief Willie Williams vowed the department would no longer be accused of making racism "business as usual" and said he had initiated an investigation into Fuhrman's claims...
...fighting." Eugene Sledge, then an 18-year-old Marine, remembered the abattoir of the Pacific this way in his memoirs: "I felt sickened to the depths of my soul. I asked God 'Why, why, why?' ... I had tasted the bitterest essence of the war ... and it filled me with disgust...
...took a while, pretty much the whole longyear of me trying to overcome my disgust at thetypes of people I was with and the type of personI was becoming, to reconcile myself to that factthat what I really most wanted was just to be, andto be with my real friends...
...produce," says Lynn Larkin, who spent eight years as a CIA case officer covering Czechoslovakia and Western Europe. As an unmarried woman, Larkin says she was pressured by her station chief to stop dating a fellow American, even though he had a security clearance. She resigned in disgust 18 months ago, after a married Directorate executive invited her to lunch, announced, "I can help your career if you stick with me," and then pressed Larkin against her car with his body. The DO, says a former top CIA official, "is almost a whole generation behind in its thinking...
Harvard was apparently interested in Grant because of the "orphan angle" as much as because of her academic achievements. The enchantment of the noble admissions officer with Grant's rags-to-riches success story and the disgust when faced with the reality behind that myth creates a wonderful irony, illuminating the shallow standards on which admission applicants are judged...