Word: disgusted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...understand it, even when you've seen it. It is terrible and beyond understanding to see human beings with brain and skillful hands and lives and destinies and thoughts reduced to a state where only blind instinct tries to keep them alive. It is beyond human anger or disgust to see in such a place the remnants of a sign put up by those who ran the place: "Honesty, Diligence, Pride, Ability . . . these are the milestones of your way through here...
Growled Arthur Vandenberg, who may well sway the U.S. Senate for or against any treaty ratifying a world charter: "I . . . deeply disagree. . . ." All three Congressmen made their disgust acidly plain to Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius Jr., who had suddenly discovered spots on his shiny new world...
...time for all parents to rise in disgust when "Czar" Petrillo goes so far as to ban high-school students from playing over the air (TIME, Feb. 19). I am writing to my Congressman. . . . Petrillo may defy the President, but he cannot defy the parents of the nation if they are sufficiently roused...
...years, olive-skinned jai alai professionals, wielding elongated basket-like contraptions called cestas, have whipped pelotas from one end of a three-walled concrete court to the other, banged their heads against the wall in disgust when they muffed a point, and pulled off shots requiring marvels of footwork and timing. Despite these pulse-quickening bursts, most Miamians found they could take Cuba's fast-paced game or leave it alone. In either case, they kept on leaving their spare change at Miami's horse and dog tracks...
Reassuring to the rest of the world were the attitudes Franklin Roosevelt urged on Congress and the U.S. people: the U.S. should not turn away and wash its hands in disgust if Europe's problems continued for a time to plague the world. "We delude ourselves if we believe that the surrender of the armies of our enemies will make the peace we long for. . . . Unconditional surrender ... is the first and necessary step-but the first step only...