Word: disgustful
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...Jesus movement, joined the C.O.G. in Atlanta, he took along many of his flock-and found himself and his friends shipped out within days. "They took over our houses, our vehicles, and about $17,000," recalls Hoyt, who rose to leadership in the C.O.G. before leaving them in disgust. But Hoyt, now in Britain and one of the Children's most outspoken foes, lost more than that: his wife and three children are still among the Children...
...Bonne Annee (Happy New Year) begins with black-and-white footage from A Man and a Woman loudly mocked by a group of convicts, who are being shown the film at Christmastime. One of them, Simon (Lino Ventura), regards the proceedings on screen with skepticism that borders on disgust. Soon after, hi the sort of unlikely stroke that frequently occurred in A Man and a Woman, Simori is pardoned from his prison sentence as sort of an official holiday gift...
When Mao's government came to power in 1949, it declared its disgust with Western imperialism, the predatory phenomenon that had weakened China immeasurably, and then embarked on a campaign to rid the country of foreign encroachments that would stand in the way of building a strong modern world power. With the urge to oust the imperialists from all of Asia, Chinese military expenditures reached new peaks. In its attempt to achieve lost self-respect, international prestige and world power, the Chinese leadership appealed to the nationalist sentiment that pervaded the Han majority, successfully merging its theory of revolutionary communism...
...German rebuff, on top of everything else, triggered a viscerally angry response in Washington. State Department Spokesman Robert McCloskey complained that America's friends were "trying to separate themselves from us publicly." Henry Kissinger exploded. "I don't care what happens to NATO, I'm so disgusted," the new Secretary of State reportedly said. The State Department later denied that Kissinger had used the word disgusted to describe his feelings about the Atlantic allies. Whether he did or not, disgust was clearly the official sentiment in Washington...
...that was taking too much time shelling a bunker into which several Egyptians had fled. "The Jews are getting excited," he explained. Then he added, in some frustration: "The Egyptians are running away, and we cannot clobber them." Watching desert dogs fleeing from the Israeli tanks, Tallo said in disgust: "Even the dogs are running away...