Word: disgust
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Fernando Collor de Mello won the Brazilian presidency in 1989 by reaching out to the descamisados, the country's shirtless poor. Now Brazilians by the thousands are putting on shirts -- black ones -- to demonstrate their disgust with a Collor regime that is haunted by scandal and economic failure. An inflation rate of 20% a month and record unemployment had already eroded support for the once popular Collor even before congressional investigators recently uncovered a kickback and bid-rigging racket engineered by top presidential aides. The embattled President made the mistake of asking followers to dress in green and yellow...
...ministries. Asked if his patience with Saddam Hussein is wearing thin, Bush said, "I've been fed up with him for a long time." From the warring states of the former Yugoslavia, images of inhuman conditions in detention camps flashed to television screens around the world, provoking disgust and anger...
Cynicism, anger and disgust are the buzzwords of this political season and Robbie--who doesn't want to give her last name--is no exception...
...have no desire to see them. Disgust prevails over curiosity...
...speaking truth to power. The reporter said he had never seen anything like it -- and I tried to contrast the few weeks of Ollie with the months of MacArthur's heroization. There are many cases in America's recent past in which people have turned from an excess of disgust with things as they are to an excess of blind trust in the one man who seems to offer an escape from everything "political...