Word: disgusted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...probably the worst possible course of action. Had he been permitted to deliver his speech, Smith could have been expected to put his foot in his mouth almost every time he opened it. He is anti-Semitic, anti-Negro, anti-Catholic, anti-so-many-things that his poisonous mouthings disgust and antagonize his audience. His philosophy has a strictly limited appeal. Although the Meeting House was not filled and there was room for any of his disciples who so desired to come in and gaze at his august presence, his audience included only about 35 people, mostly old ladies...
That attitude got him through the tough grind which made good golfers spray tee shots into the wire-haired rough, even quit in disgust...
Arthur Boehn, of Cleveland's Boehn Pressure Steel Corp., said that his company had paid up to 14? a pound (mill price: around 3?). Last week he gave up in disgust, laid off his 100 employees, shut his plant...
...Eastern Seaboard last week by flying 135 World War II Superfortresses over their heads. The main target of a simulated bombing attack was New York City, which only 101 bombers reached. One squadron had to be diverted to Florida after it ran into storms over Arkansas. To the disgust of General George C. Kenney, boss of the Strategic Air Command, one squadron reached New York 20 minutes late...
...Guild's choice for June) is a novel chiefly in the sense that it contains some of the most artificial fiction, dressed in the worst prose, that "Red" Lewis has ever written. In essence, it is a cut-&-slash pamphlet, packed to the boards with ferocity, diatribe and disgust. Kingsblood Royal is not another onslaught on the old established fact of Southern discrimination; it is a blow at the smug white of the Northern cities-at the man who merely dabbled in race prejudice until the industrial needs of World War II caused thousands of migrant Negro workmen...