Word: disgusted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reasoning behind college admission preference for a random housing lottery is noteworthy. It would appear as if the administrative viewpoint springs not from any social vision based upon educational values from a disgust with parental complaints assignments of those students now randomly housed. If we could only spread out the pain. So to speak, no one could argue that he or she was unfairly treated Moreover no definitive proof exists showing that the present system causes any harm. Last year Associate Registrar Lay Halfond Mather House Semor Lutor Steven Epsterm prepared a report chock full of numbers supposedly indicating...
...Vietnamese attack on the front thus weakens a non-Communist alternative to the Heng Samrin government. By themselves, the stronger and more aggressive Khmer Rouge are far less likely to draw international sympathy to the resistance cause, since they are still remembered by the rest of the world with disgust for the deaths between 1975 and 1978 of as many as 2 million of Kampuchea's then approximately 7 million people...
...lopsided results drew protests that the judges were unduly dazzled by the prospect of the Americans' impending pro careers. When Super Heavyweight Tyrell Biggs won the gold medal with a 4-1 decision, his opponent, Italy's Francesco Damiani, gestured angrily in disgust. After South Korean Light Welterweight Dong-Kil Kim lost a 4-1 decision to Jerry Page, 23, in the quarterfinals, the South Koreans briefly threatened to pull out of the tournament. And when Heavyweight Henry Tillman's 3-2 loss to Italy's Angelo Musone was overturned by the jury that reviews...
Appalling. Who dropped the n in the An on your cover? Teachers everywhere are groaning. Those of us who used to look to TIME for decent editing have given up in disgust...
...another implicitly compares the hero's lickerish mother to a pleasure-loving lizard; a third likens the members of a platoon to an anteater, a peafowl, a civet cat and other zoo dwellers. To make so beastly a world bearable, an author should ensure that disgust is in his characters' minds and not in his own. At this Boyd does not invariably succeed. In the title story, for example, a G.I. in Saigon undresses a shy local whore only to find that her back has been grotesquely scarred by napalm; in another, a sexual innocent is initiated...