Word: disgust
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...complaints in a single day. When the umpteenth belligerent caller demanded, "How long are you going to keep the U.N. session on the air?", General Manager James C. Hanrahan finally blew a fuse. "How long will the marines stay in Lebanon?" he shouted, and banged the receiver down in disgust...
...relief to see the magnificent and inspiring art works of the Louvre after so much of the modern abstract trash. I wish you would reproduce more of man's great achievements that inspire rather than disgust...
...drifted while inflation soared 32%. High-priced Finnish export industries lost out in vital foreign markets, and unemployment rose last winter to 6% of the labor force. In last week's election, right and left gained at the expense of the center. Many other voters stayed home in disgust. The irondisciplined Communists, while increasing their total popular vote by only 17,000, captured 50 of 200 parliamentary seats (a gain of seven...
...National Union of Mineworkers, phoned up the right-wing Daily Express to announce that he was "shocked and horrified" at this "needless folly." (He remains a Communist, apparently disturbed only by inept tactics.) In Scotland Mrs. Helen Wolff, sister of top British Communist John Gollan, quit the party in disgust. And to the surprise of one and all, the Very Rev. Hewlett Johnson, "Red Dean" of Canterbury, opened his eyes long enough to announce that "the Dean regrets the executions...
...Partly it was the firmed-up leadership lately shown by President Eisenhower. Partly it was the voice of the people: during their Easter recess (TIME, April 21) members of Congress heard unexpected grass-roots sentiments that many a Democratic state Governor had already detected, e.g., wariness toward tax cuts, disgust at the mud dredged up by the McClellan committee's labor investigation, widespread if reluctant acceptance of foreign aid as a cold-war necessity...