Word: disgust
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...moderates had been waiting hopefully for some word from quiet, capable Dr. Mohammed Hatta. First elected Vice President in 1945, Hatta is Indonesia's best-known politician after Sukarno, is regarded by many Indonesians as a much more stable and responsible statesman. He resigned 13 months ago in disgust at the President's insistence on including Communists in his Cabinet, has since rejected all overtures to come back into the government...
Singer Nat "King" Cole, the first Negro entertainer to get his own TV network show (TIME, July 15), quit last week in disgust after a 13-month run on NBC. Reason: advertising agencies had failed to turn up a national sponsor for the show, which has been sponsored regionally. Cole charged that "many, not all" of the agencies had deliberately dragged their feet in the belief that a Negro "performer would hurt any national client's sales in the South. Said he: "This is nonsense. As an entertainer, I know I'm salable to all kinds of people...
...fact, the disgust aroused by certain methods used now alienates the majority of those who under abuse or duress at one time supported the rebellion. Every passing day confirms this. Practically all over Algeria, life has returned to normalcy. Last June more than 100 victims of terror fell in Algiers; no attacks occurred in September, and but one in October. Everywhere, in the country as well as the cities, people are at work; cars travel on the roads; and-this detail is important for a country which we are supposed to believe is in the throes of an insurrection-takes...
Your Oct. 21 picture of Chou En-lai and those 15 visiting U.S. students clapping hands together-obviously impervious to the blood of thousands, nay millions, on those hands-sickened me to disgust. God save us from such Americans...
...months ago. "Keep faith with Magsaysay!" cried the Nacionalistas of President Carlos P. Garcia, the smooth, shrewd politician who succeeded to the presidency on Magsaysay's death. "Magsaysay was our guy; now Yulo is our Magsaysay," proclaimed the Liberals, ignoring the fact that Ramon Magsaysay deserted them in disgust for the Nacionalistas...