Word: disgusted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unable to give her speech because of the constant interruption of cheers and snatches of song, Carrie finally gave up in disgust, abandoning the Harvard boys to their horrible fate...
...Their standards of food, sanitation and comfort are so high and their astonishment and disgust when expected to put up with lower standards so unfeigned and unrancorous that the Germans, unwilling to admit that their own standards are lower, are shamed into making improvements...
...Disgust in Rome. The man who lit the beacon was St. Benedict of Nursia. The facts of St. Benedict's life were all but lost in Europe's long cultural night. The little that is known comes from the Dialogues of St. Gregory. According to St. Gregory, St. Benedict was born (at Nursia in Umbria) about...
...rose-tinted postwar conditions that will prevail back home at a time when the burden of the battle must still be borne. The commentators say the fighting boys, after catching a gander at such ads in magazines and newspapers sent to the front, throw them away in disgust...
...mines are still inferior. . . . And there are still inertia and inefficiency in some parts of the Bureau of Ordnance. . . . This is not due to any lack of technical brains; some of the best service and civilian minds in the nation have been available . . . some of them . . . have resigned in disgust. Red tape, slow-moving controlling mentalities, and the lack of a sense of urgency on the part of some of the Bureau's officers are responsible...