Word: disgust
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...dismay. West Germany's Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard blamed De Gaulle for a "black day," declaring that "the Common Market is now only a mechanism and no longer a living thing." Alfred Müller-Armack, West Germany's chief negotiator at Brussels, quit his job in disgust. Jean Monnet, the dynamic optimist who is the father of the Common Market, lamented that "there now looms disunion with its inherent dangers.'' Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan told his country on TV: "What happened at Brussels was bad. Bad for us, bad for Europe...
...pies in black anger, with intent to maim. His novels resemble (more accurately, are resembled by) Heller's Catch-22; the difference being that Condon's work is wildly plotted and Heller's is wildly plotless. The reaction of Condon's readers is usually either disgust and incredulity or fanatical admiration and incredulity. True believers will be pleased to learn that the first draft of An Infinity of Mirrors, a novel on Paris during World War II, is cooling off in Condon's trunk. And Condon is nothing if not prolific: he has plotted...
...handed arrests of Der Spiegel executives (see below) but regret the price they had to pay: the replacement of the Ministers for Justice and Finance. Only the Socialists, as usual frozen out of the government, seem in a position to gain at the polls from the public disgust at the Spiegel affair...
...university without football," says Lombardi in disgust, "is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall." Lombardi's next stop-Army-was in no such peril. Head Coach Earl ("Red") Blaik was college football's reigning genius, and besides Lombardi. his staff included such whiz kids as Murray War-math and Paul Dietzel. For five years Lombardi ran the cadets' fast-striking offense-and by West Point standards, most of them were lean years. Army's great All-Americas, Glenn Davis and Doc Blanchard, graduated in 1947, and 37 players were expelled when a cribbing...
...Thorat and Commander in Chief General K. S. Thimayya appealed to Nehru against Menon's promotion policies. When Nehru, who has long scorned the British-trained officers as men who "did not understand India," refused to listen to complaints about Menon, both generals retired from the army in disgust. Menon named as new commander in chief P. N. Thapar, a "paperwork general...