Word: disgust
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...will stay with me, you know. Not because he loves me more but because he is tired. Besides, he has no money of his own." Faced with the awful truth, the husband is at least man enough to admit that he is not a man. In disgust, the mistress turns him out, then gasps in horror as she realizes that she will never see him again. Suddenly he opens the door. "My darling!" she sobs, "You have come back to me!" But he has only come back for his briefcase...
...trouble began in 1952, says Harry Truman, when he summoned Governor Adlai Stevenson of Illinois to Blair House and offered to support him for the Democratic presidential nomination. Adlai just could not make up his mind. Months later, Truman gave up in disgust and switched to Vice President Alben Barkley. Then Adlai called and asked: "Would you object if I agreed to run?" At that, says Truman, "I blew up. I talked to him in language I think he had never heard before...
When Neelands resigned in disgust from Capital's board in 1958, he warned that the line had "sought more routes than it could swallow and was working toward a crisis." Now, faced with a $33.8 million mortgage foreclosure on planes and a full-scale CAB investigation, Capital President David H. Baker and his backers on Capital's board have called on Neelands to solve the line's woes...
...very last point of human finitude and helplessness." Today's "attempts at tragedy have abandoned this finite image for a new Pelagian tactic, for a new type of third act, the third act of the power and the exclamation point." Society & Ritual. Similarly, too many people turn in disgust from the finite facts of society and seek to escape toward the absolute. That is wrong, says Lynch: "But the Catholic imagination does not force me to imagine that at the end I must free myself from all human society to unite myself with God. Rather, it helps...
...increasing international disgust at Trujillo's conduct could be understood by the news from Greece and Mexico. In Athens, 46 Greeks got out of a plane overjoyed to be back from Trujilloland. They had been recruited nine months ago by the promise of jobs at salaries ranging between $300 and $600 a month-big money in Greece. Once they got to the Dominican Republic, they were ordered to draw uniforms and arms as members of Trujillo's foreign legion. When they refused, they were thrown naked into communal and solitary cells at La Victoria prison outside Ciudad Trujillo...