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Word: disgustedly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...carefully explained that his country's claims to the islands are rooted in 150-year-old territorial rights. The military junta professes to believe that Argentina's demand for be islands and the army's right to take them by force are legitimate. To top it off, the Argentine disgust for all things communist quietly disappeared as the prospect of war with Britain grew. Mendez admitted last week that his nation "might be forced" to turn to the Soviet Union for arms to battle Britain's navy...

Author: By Allen S. Weiner, | Title: An Opportunity Missed | 4/27/1982 | See Source »

Craig Stadler may have done more than win the PGA Masters last week. The beer-bellied hurler of eight-irons and unprintable expressions of disgust may have jolted golf loose from its venerable "clean sport" image Golfers everywhere, from the pros to the caddy camps, have had to cope with sneers from aficionados of other sports, who believe playing golf requires a minimum of effort and talent and primarily a lot of inherited wealth. Stadler has shown that a less classy guy can win a major tournament, proving that golf is a game of skill, both mental and physical...

Author: By Constance M. Laibe, | Title: Harvard Golf | 4/24/1982 | See Source »

...third pillar of Reaganomics is of regulation, designed to relieve business of "unnecessary" costs. Lekachman, however, reminds his readers of two important facts about government regulation. First, government regulation arose not because of bureaucratic stupidity, but because of public disgust with pollution, unsafe products and hazardous working conditions. Second, the public complained because it was bearing the coats--e.g., in higher doctor bills--for corporate irresponsibility. Deregulation restores to Americans the privilege of paying the costs of the "negative externalities" of modern industry...

Author: By Chuck Lane, | Title: Dismantling Reaganomics | 4/20/1982 | See Source »

...flyers details Harvard-CARP's disgust that in the United States, "one out of three women will be sexually assalted in their lifetimes, there is a rape every seven minutes, and one-half of every marriage ends in divorce...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Moon Group Launches Campus Drive | 4/6/1982 | See Source »

Meanwhile, third singles and Captain Adam Beren handled Alan Leathers so mercilessly that Leathers spent much of the match throwing his racket in disgust...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Businesslike Racketmen Net First Gain; Sands Leads Team in Rout Over B.U. | 3/24/1982 | See Source »

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