Word: disgust
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...Washington had more complex explanations. McCormick was apparently fed up with Bazy's autocratic way of running his newspaper. During her reign, nearly a dozen loyal, valuable T-H veterans had quit in disgust ("No matter what you may think of Colonel McCormick's policies," said one of them, "he is a wonderful boss. People just don't leave the Chicago Tribune . . ."). The T-H had fallen behind rivals in circulation and advertising increases...
...been asked to do, but he realized that as the 1952 presidential campaign drew nearer, pressure would grow to finance the government campaign out of the Treasury, as it was financed more or less in 1948. Said Havana's newspaper Alerta: "Bosch took office to the profound disgust of the politicians, and leaves accompanied by their broad smiles as they wait outside the ministry doors to assault the Treasury he guarded...
...Antolin finds Madrid a city swamped in extremes of poverty and black-market corruption, ruled by ubiquitous police, in & out of uniform. His own family drives him to alternating spells of despair and disgust. Señora Luisa, his wife, has become a stranger, ugly, shrewish, and a convert to the rage for spiritualism in which many of the poor seek a solace they cannot find in the church. Juan, the younger son, is an underpaid factory worker and a Communist. Daughter Amelia, frightened, hypocritical and ill, wants only enough money to buy her way into a convent and escape...
Heroine in Teddington. The vote did not still the clamorous disgust of the country. Even what little meat was available caused trouble. Miss Mary Olive D'Oyly, for 14 years a butcher in working-class Teddington, 93 miles from London, bustled angrily to Westminster with 32 housewife customers to see her M.P. On a previous visit she had taken a leg of ewe mutton. It was so fat, she complained, that nobody would...
June 15, 1940-4 p.m. France had fallen. Down the main street of a country town staggered a drunken rout of French soldiery, bawling the self-disgust of their nation in a savagely gross song. "Tant qu'il y aura de la merde dans le pot," it went, "ça puera dans la chambre" (When the pot's full, no wonder the room stinks...