Word: disgust
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...soldier, should know better, or at least have some vestige of pride in his country . . . I can only hope that as these ambling dreamers wander around the Orient as guests of the Reds . . . the British dead in Korea don't get up from their graves with disgust...
...dropped to a chill 57° on the English Channel coast and hovered near freezing on the French side. London last week had its coldest August day since 1871; Wordsworth's famed Lake Country had its 32nd consecutive day of rain. Frigid Frenchmen threw up their hands in disgust and dismissed the whole season (the worst, climatically speaking, in 78 years) as "l'été pourri"-the decayed summer...
...accordance with the Geneva agreement? Like hell they will. What they will do is send out a couple of phony battalions of peasants, accompanied by a few of their better-known cadres. They probably want the cadres to take refresher courses in the north anyway." He shrugged in disgust and despair...
...part of the estate of Founder E. W. Scripps and wife of hot-tempered Manchester (N.H.) Union Leader Publisher William Loeb, wired S-H executives: "[Woltman's] smearing of Senator McCarthy [is] rotten, biased journalism, which would make my grandfather, E. W. Scripps . . . turn in his grave with disgust and shame." Added Mrs. Loeb and her husband in a telegram direct to Woltman: "We are ashamed of ever having known...
...quits. Almost before Tony Aquista's body had cooled, the detective was poking into as sordid a mess as hardened mystery addicts could reasonably ask for. Macdonald's blend of sex and sadism includes marijuana, incest and adultery. That the mixture stops well this side of disgust is a tribute to his nice sense of realism, an adult way of conveying that life is sometimes like this, but no need to leer...