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...crowd shuffles from its seats in murmuring disgust, a spasm of pride stiffens Pacote. He calls for another bull. Standing on a handkerchief, never moving his feet, he makes nine faultless "passes of death." Working ever closer to the bull, he sees its horns pass him at ten inches, at five, at two, until he has executed 24 passes in a row. His tunic is smeared with blood from the bull's flank, but the crowd calls for more. As Pacote moves in over the bull's horns for the kill, the animal tosses its head...
...busy telephone lines, and in every other way they could, the Eisenhower men were trying to turn the Taft weapon against the Taft machine. Their argument to delegates: Taft is trying to push you and everybody else around; this steamroller will disgust the voters so much that Taft can't possibly win in November...
This intense concern with the near mythical "scholar-athlete" has, however filled some officials with disgust. They are tired of actively seeking after this elusive "glamour-boy" and feel that many a student who doesn't handle a pigskin with an particular adoptness is being ignored and shoved into the shadows...
...Unshared Disgust. The top men of the Taft organization didn't seem to share Ingraham's disgust. Campaign Manager David Sinton Ingalls, who with Southern Strategist B. Carroll Reece had been in Mineral Wells through it all, said: "We can't have Democrats telling us who to nominate." Bob Taft said the factional fight in Texas existed long before...
...horror he discovered that the Communists, now firmly in the saddle, considered him a Fascist because he had served in a non-Communist unit. Faced with arrest, he had to sleep in the streets, found himself a criminal in the country he had come to fight for. His disgust exceeding his fear, Orwell crossed the border into France, wrote what is still the best book on the Spanish civil...