Word: disgustful
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...felt badly stung by the failure of his attempts in May to push NATO into military intervention, and was worried that U.S. diplomatic credibility had been eroded by months of vacillation. As a result, he seemed determined not to be blamed if Sarajevo fell. He may also have felt disgust at the bad faith of the Serbs, who promised once again last week to lift the siege, then immediately started squabbling about exactly where their front line had been...
...administration's hostile policies against student theater have never been anything new. Nearly 70 years ago Professor George Baker, who first brought fame to the Agassiz with his daring new drama workshop, quit Harvard in apparent disgust with the lack of support from the College. His "47 Workshop" bred future playwrights like Eugene O'Neill and Thomas Wolfe. Student theater has never been able to recover from this blow. For all its reputation, Harvard's theater scene is a lamentable mess, continually outstripped by programs in other universities today...
...Ring Lardner, the humorist of humble wonders and the ironist of old-time virtues, was driven to rages of wit over the suggestive excesses of Tin Pan Alley and the Broadway stage. Cole Porter's gymnastics in verse drove Lardner to postulate any number of revisions that reflected his disgust without diminishing his vitriol ("Night and day, under the bark of me/ There's an Oh, such a mob of microbes making a park of me"). Temperance of any kind was not a Lardner trademark...
...that time, Polish President Lech Walesa, entertainer Mandy Patinkin, House Speaker Tom Foley and others had long run out of anything to say to one another and were squishing in the mud under a tent in a driving rain. Many of the older guests, Holocaust survivors, had left in disgust...
...Clinton must remember the roots of Perot support--disgust with the political system--if he is to win their hearts and votes...