Word: disgusted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trial with him was Helen Campbell, a grandmotherly spinster who, as Thomas' chief secretary, had carried out the salary kickback scheme on orders from the boss. Helen Campbell, in a fit of conscience and disgust, turned on Thomas and told what she knew. Columnist Drew Pearson printed the full story, leading the Congressman to his downfall. For her "free, frank and full" confession, Judge Alexander Holtzoff let Miss Campbell go free...
...cause of these riots, as explained by Dr. Peabody, was that "the food... was so mean in quality, so poorly cooked, and so coarsely served, as to disgust those who had been accustomed to the decencies of the table, and to encourage a mutinous spirit, rude manners, and ungentlemanly habits; so that the dining halls were seats of boisterous misrule and nurseries of rebellion...
...writing about the Sever chairs. This letter is the delayed expression of first growing doubt, then smouldering disgust and alarm, not only at the new chairs themselves but at the sheepish, unthinking acquiescence with which we accept them. A prophetic eye would discern in the chairs a sign of a new attitude toward education, and perhaps also in their slow but sure advance, Hitler-fashion, from classroom to classroom, a symbol of the gradual and easy deception and deadening of popular reaction...
...Muscle. But nothing was giving. Five weeks of strike-shrouded, ill-tempered negotiations between John L. Lewis' United Mine Workers and the coal operators had only increased their distaste for each other. The northern and western operators walked out of the bargaining room in disgust last week, virtually inviting the U.S. Government to step in. Lewis apparently still hoped to stall the negotiations somehow until Phil Murray's 480,000 striking United Steelworkers settled their strike with the steel industry...
Then she left in disgust to play in "Goodby My Fancy." She has been playing the same part ever since and is playing it in Boston now. Boston audiences she finds prudish...