Word: disgustedly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard's offense was so persistent that at one point goalie Macdonald, whose outstanding 15-save effort kept the visitors in the game, threw down her stick in disgust...
...same token, students should not have to endanger their academic careers in order to express their moral disgust or to avoid a professor who has proven he has the potential to abuse his authority...
...temperance movement has even reached that most bibulous of regions, Georgia, where no meal is complete without wine. A group of foreign journalists in Tbilisi was recently toasted with fruit juice, to the disgust of a local official who declared the ban "an insult to the tradition of Georgian hospitality." The new rules appear to be having some effect. With police now on the lookout for drunks, plumbers and carpenters seem less ready to insist on vodka as payment "under the table," which is where they often ended up by midday. "Now they're sober all day," says one Muscovite...
...grand scale. In Anthony Hopkins' brilliant, buoyant realization, he is a comic creation as monstrously beguiling as Tartuffe. He shares with Moliere's sham holy man the gift of ever renewed plausibility. Time and again, just as the audience is ready to withdraw its sympathy in disgust, Le Roux exposes the hypocrisies of opponents so tellingly that he becomes persuasive anew. When outraged employees confront him, his retort is blunt and seemingly unanswerable: If an unfettered press is crucial to a free society, then why have Fleet Street journalists squandered their energies on look-alike rags compounded of crime, cleavage...
...again. What put an end to Prohibition in 1933 was not so much that it was unworkable and unenforceable. According to some historians, it lowered U.S. drinking as much as 50%. A main reason for repeal, write Authors Mark Lender and James Martin in Drinking in America, was "popular disgust with the rigidity of temperance advocates . . . their all or nothing posture...