Word: disgusted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Much to its disgust, the battery served as an infantry outfit in the battle at Contreras in the Mexican War-the only occasion when it had no big guns to work with. Battery D was the first unit rushed to Washington during the Civil War to look after the capital's defenses, saw action at Antietam, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg. In World War I, the battery spread its death-shade at the Marne, Cantigny, the Argonne, Saint-Mihiel, was among the last units to return from France. Many of its numerous battle streamers were won in World...
...last week found themselves the bearers of a new responsibility. Menaced-so they really believed for the first time-from the air, San Franciscans and Los Angelenos hugged the radio as if it were mother's knee. At first, as elsewhere in the nation, people exploded with sudden disgust at the remnants of saccharine sales talk lilting from loudspeakers...
Commenting on the Japanese war, his letter said, in part, "I want to take this opportunity to express my disgust of the treacherous actions of the Japanese aggressors and to say that I am sure that the American people will show as much heroism and staying power in repelling the Japanese as have shown the Russian defenders during the past six months...
...Gentile, a man of political action. He had been a trenchantly pro-Loyalist newspaper correspondent in Spain, where Franco forces had caught him and led him through the streets of Malaga in chains. He had been a member of the Communist party for seven years, had left it in disgust 18 months before the Stalin-Hitler pact...
...pajama-clad Yardlings assembled, and water began to seep under first floor doorsills, firemen determined the cause of the nocturnal deluge to be the mysterious melting of wax in a second floor sprinkler. Head Fire Chief Herman E. Gutholm was heard to mutier, as he drove away in disgust. "Sabotage, no doubt...