Word: disgustful
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...wasn’t long before one of the sailors threw up his hands in disgust and backed out of the crowd. He had been trying to give the smaller children candy. But every time he reached down to give it to them, eager fingers would snatch it all away. If he hadn’t stopped, he said, “I would’ve lost my wedding band...
...nowhere near as unified as foreigners - or even "we Chinese" - assume. Narrowly, this means that the people of Yunnan have little interest in a certain sporting event that will commence on August 8, 2008. One Yunnan truck driver, when asked about the Olympics, just shook his head in disgust. "So much money is being wasted," he said, the first time I'd heard someone in China refer so negatively to the Summer Games. "It's not going to make my life any better. Why should I care...
...Catholic and evangelical voters. Republicans, meanwhile, have been lining up to receive the seal of approval from Pat Robertson and James Dobson. But at the same time, Mitt Romney has gone to great lengths to avoid talking about his Mormonism, John McCain's religious advisors quit his campaign in disgust, and when the AP inquired as to what church Rudy Giuliani attended, the former mayor essentially told them to mind their own business...
...disturb our tranquillity." In the early 19th century, the Catholic Church in Europe won no favors in the U.S. by opposing republican revolutions in Italy and Hungary. American Catholics had been good citizens; would new arrivals also be? The anti-immigrant reaction of the 1920s was a spasm of disgust with both European autocracies and European revolutionaries. Kings and emperors had caused World War I, and Bolsheviks were plotting new horrors. Most Americans wanted to wash their hands of the Continent and its people...
...winning director Roman Polanksi took the press corps to task. "I think it's really the computer that's brought you down to this level. You're no longer interested in what's going on in the cinema. Frankly, let's all go and have lunch." Hmm. Was this disgust talking--or just hunger? SCORE...