Word: disgusted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...behalf of onetime President General Carlos Ibañez del Campo. In the course of the proceedings 60 Nacista youths and a couple of innocent insurance salesmen who had barricaded themselves in the Caja de Seguro Obrero (Workers' Insurance Building) were shot or bayoneted after surrender. Popular disgust with the Government of President Arturo Alessandri, as well as with the Nacistas, brought to power the Popular Front, and to the Presidency the onetime high-school professor who is called Don Tinto because his complexion resembles the good red wine he makes...
...invisible watchmen, sending prying inspectors. The real socko of all, however--the knock down punch--comes when no audience appears after three weeks of tough work. After flunking exams, losing sleep and sanity, thinking all the time that one's work is worthwhile, there is a feeling of absolute disgust when no one takes any interest...
...given the camera a new elo quence - for example, the "stolen" newsreels, the aged and streaked documentary shots. When Susan makes her disastrous operatic debut, the camera tells the story by climbing high up among the flies to find two stagehands - one with his hand pinching his nose in disgust. Always the camera seems to be giving the narrative a special meaning where it will help most: picturing a small bottle beside a tumbler when Susan Kane is lying drugged with an overdose of sedatives, exploring the love nest and the family breakfast table like a pair of prying eyes...
...votes, and the raging machine contested the election. Inauguration Day (Jan. 13) came & went; still the Democratic machine tools refused to seat Donnell. Democratic Governor Lloyd Crow Stark, furious at his party, stayed on overtime while the case went to the Supreme Court. Citizens everywhere spat disgust at the Democratic legislature; some of it spattered on uncomfortable, friendly Lawrence McDaniel. At an advertising club's satirical dinner (Jan. 31) the chums were asked to pose together. Genial McDaniel was willing; Donnell declined. The chums were chums no longer. Last week the Supreme Court held for Republican Donnell...
...great awakening has finally arrived. For years the H. A. A. has blindly scheduled headline swimming meets and basketball games in the Indoor Athletic Building for the same night and at the very same hour, much to the disgust of athletically minded undergraduates...