Word: disgustful
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...seem strange at first to claim there is anything philosophical about the spectacle of twenty-two professional giants pounding over a field of plastic grass while 60,000 lunatics roar in pleasure or disgust. The players, of course, with their physical and financial survival in continual jeopardy, are no more likely to philosophize during the game than gladiators in the arena-But for the viewers, especially for the viewers watching for free in the eremitical peace of living room or den, protected from the elements, aided and enlightened by instant replay and running commentary, a well played game...
...Edgar Hoover tenders his resignation to President Nixon, commenting with disgust, "the President has exterminated one third of the human race, without consulting...
...particularly hard hit, since the mountains were a bastion for the guerrillas. Many villagers who were affected by these harsh measures talk admiringly of the colonels, who are virulently anti-Communist. But even in these bastions of conservatism, the junta's support is rapidly declining. The Samarinans reacted with disgust when they heard that the military was interfering with our film, which was simply attempting to describe...
...many nice guys in our sagt-in fact, we can't even focus all of our disgust on one antagonist which might be somewhat idle; anyway there's a boycott on. We decide we want to improve the conditions for migrant workers and we can join consumers and chain stores in organized activity. It worked once with grapes. In this frame of mind, we can be rather startled when our administrators defend their position on lettuce by admitting that their policy on grapes had been equally impervious to moral argument. We knew that Harvard had stopped buying grapes, but little...
...wrote the outline of Brock's script. Issue by issue, Brock attacked systematically: gun control, school busing, the Haynsworth-Carswell votes, school prayer, support of the President on Viet Nam. Said Brock of the Senate doves who took credit for giving impetus to Nixon's latest peace proposal: "They disgust me?all of them, including Albert Gore." Ken Rietz, a partner of Harry Treleaven, the political TV consultant, came from Washington to manage Brock's campaign. "We did not underestimate Gore," said Rietz. "We never assumed that he was a dead dove." Aside from an advertising blitz that easily outshone...