Word: disgust
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...scream, if primal, was perfectly articulate. The New Hampshire primary amounted to a cry of anger, disgust and pain that was above everything else a warning to George Bush, a kind of political death threat. New Hampshire's Republicans gave only 53% of their vote to the incumbent President -- a stroke of lese majeste that distantly recalled the 50% that New Hampshire Democrats gave Lyndon Johnson in 1968, when Eugene McCarthy took 42% and helped force L.B.J. to withdraw...
...black person -- indeed, no modern historian of any race -- could read such bland dismissals without disgust. The question is, How to correct the record? Only by more knowledge. Toynbee was writing more than 50 years ago, but in the past 20 years, immense strides have been made in the historical scholarship of both Africa and African America. But the upwelling of research, the growth of Black Studies programs, and all that goes with the long-needed expansion of the field seem fated to be plagued by movements like Afrocentrism, just as there are always cranks nattering about flying saucers...
...well-known example is Anderson's disgust for homosexuality, which he has called "deviant behavior" in several letters to The Crimson...
...eventually refused to print the Holocaust advertisement for several reasons. The "easier" reason, the reason that allowed us to maintain our "objectivity," was that its appearance was deceptive. With such an excuse we avoided the personal and political implications that mere "distaste" (or, more accurately, disgust) would invoke. We could avoid the "freedom of speech" question if the ad were deemed simply fraudulent...
...exam schedule, students gave mixed reactions to the shorter reading period, but expressed almost unanimous disgust with Harvard's system of having exams after break...