Word: disgustful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fact they often went bankrupt, and some of the towns themselves disappeared. Two San Francisco papers, the California Star and the Californian, folded overnight when the city was emptied by the 1848 gold rush. William J. Forbes, who published the Virginia City (Nev.) Daily Trespass, gave up in disgust. "Of 20 men," he said, "19 patronize the saloons and one the newspaper, and I am going with the crowd." He opened a saloon. But when he had built up a sufficient stake, he once again started a newspaper...
...because white colleges would not admit black students. Dependent largely upon whites for financial survival, the schools have never been aggressive in attacking segregation. For officials of these colleges, "the result was usually self-contempt, born either from acceptance of the white view that Negroes were inferior or from disgust at having succumbed silently to an outrageous injustice, or from both." Their schools became "an ill-financed, ill-staffed caricature of white higher education...
...torture methods of the secret police and another gave an insider's look at the bolshe vita of Communist fat cats in the early 1950s. There is also a Hungarian version of Catcher in the Rye, in which the author, a 17-year-old schoolboy, admits in disgust: "I can't stand it that the Americans announce the launching of a rocket a month before and the Russians only when it's in orbit...
...their disgust, the war ended before either could get into action, and they returned to Yale. Hadden took up again as chairman of the Daily News; Luce became its managing editor as well as a contributor of poetry to the literary magazine. "I came to the conclusion," Luce later said, "that I was never going to be a really good poet, so the hell with it." He and Hadden reorganized the Daily News, then determined to go into newspaper work because of their experience there. The "paper" that they had discussed at Camp Jackson still remained a vague and undefined...
...pornos for they disgust and traffic in excrement...