Word: disgust
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...disgust at those who called themselves "German Christians" and toed the Nazi line, Bonhoeffer accepted a pastorate in England in 1933, but returned to Germany when his church called him to take charge of one of its near-illegal seminaries, which were frowned on by the Nazis but permitted to operate on a shoestring in private country houses. In 1937 the Nazis began to stop his work, but two years later Bonhoeffer somehow won permission to come to the U.S., where he had previously spent a year on a scholarship at Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary. His second stay...
Died. Carlos Ibañez del Campo, 82, Chilean strongman who forced his way to the presidency in 1927, held office until 1931, was elected to a second term (1952-58) by a huge majority because of popular disgust with inflation but initiated economic reforms only at the cost of his popularity; of cancer; in Santiago, Chile...
...gasp in admiration as Powerman Palmer unwinds to send a 280-yd. drive down the fairway. Coldly precise in his study of the game, Palmer is anything but stolid during a round: he mutters imprecations to himself, contorts his face, sometimes drops his club and wanders away in disgust at a botched shot. On the greens, bent into his knock-kneed stance, he tries to sink long putts when many pros would prudently try to lag up to the cup. Says Palmer: "I guess I putt past the pin more than most anybody. I always like to give...
...saved. Betty." The plot, however, is mostly concerned with another girl-healthy enough not to require a medicine cabinet-who comes to share Julian's rustic idyl for a while. When he finds her clasped by a lustful vegetarian, he takes to his bed for several days in disgust, but wakes up to find wild flowers thrusting up through the bleak earth of his gloom; there is money in the mail from an American publisher. At book's end he is planning another poem...
...flight of stairs. Rhee then jailed him. In the 1956 elections, Chough backed Rhee's opposition. Presidential Candidate Patrick Henry Shinicky died of a cerebral hemorrhage ten days before the election, but the vice presidential candidate, John M. Chang, won the vice presidency, to Rhee's disgust. Vice President Chang was subsequently shot by unidentified thugs, then placed under "protective" house arrest. Chough was again severely beaten up, this time in Taegu...