Word: disgusted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...marched them through the city for Paris to see. Last week the Berliner Illustrierte Zeitung and other big German newspapers published two photographs. One showed a buxom Parisienne spitting in a British prisoner's face. Said the caption: "This Parisian lady could not be prevented from showing her disgust by spitting in the Englishman's face." The other picture showed a G.I. ducking a blow at his face delivered by a bespectacled bystander. Said the caption: "The population was so aroused against criminal terrorists that German soldiers were not always able to hold back the irate crowd...
...extremis when we brought him aboard. He had been shot from only a few feet away and he had a big hunk of his chest blown out. He pulled out of it somehow. When we got to talking to him we found that his attitude was one of complete disgust with Jap marksmanship. He said, 'If that had been a marine he would have shot me right square through the forehead...
...Acid Poetess Dorothy Parker believed he had "done more kindness than anyone I have ever known." Novelist Edna Ferber called him a "New Jersey Nero who mistook his pinafore for a toga." Sometimes his most devoted admirers found his cantankerousness hard to bear. "I find you are beginning to disgust me, puss," he once snarled at a guest. "How about getting the hell out of here...
...farmer was being rescued again by the War Food Administration. Fresh from its six-month egg-buying spree which supported egg prices-much to the housewife's disgust-WFA started buying wheat last week. Under the pressure of forecasts of a billion bushel crop, wheat prices had sagged to a 1944 low. But a thumping two million bushel order placed in Kansas City and Minneapolis by WFA snapped prices up four cents a bushel...
...needle trades. London was "an unreconstructed idealist, one of those rare spirits whose goodness was felt by all who came in contact with him." When he veered toward liberalism, the left-wing needle trades union called him "a deserter." "This wounded his moral self-esteem," and he resigned in "disgust with the whole mess." Benjamin Schlesinger, president of the I.L.G.W.U. Born in Lithuania, Schlesinger began his U.S. life as a boy match peddler in the Chicago slums. "The really dominant emotional undertone in Schlesinger's long career was a deep, almost fierce devotion to this country and its democratic...