Word: disgustful
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...Thorough Disgust...
Pileup of Problems. Sheer disgust was Onganía's motive. From the moment Illia took over, his philosophy had been to sit quietly back and let the land of beef and wheat run itself. The only place it ran was downhill. Prices, wages, national debt and unemployment soared, and Illia's one really concrete action-cancellation of all foreign oil contracts-proved a disaster. Argentina, which has been almost self-sufficient in oil, must now import $100 million worth annually...
...holy places where Jesus Christ had lived in the flesh," devoutly kissing the "places where his feet had trod." In the end, wrote Chronicler William of Tyre, "the city offered a spectacle of such a slaughter that the victors themselves could not help but be struck with horror and disgust...
...often been put aside. Thus, PBH has been able to make long lists of friends. But where Harvard has emerged as an "Institution," the hostility--or at least much of it--remains. Watching a protest march down Massachusetts Ave. this spring most Cambridge spectators could murmur nothing but disgust. They identified the marchers with Harvard, and clearly they didn't like what was coming from the Square. It is also Harvard, the "institution," that can be bandied around in informal political discussions, and therefore it is in this context that anti-Harvard statements can be most effective...
...That's quite a load," he sighed, "when a car weighing 1,450 Ibs. is sitting on your head. But it didn't stay there long." Said Dan Gurney in disgust: "It seems like 33 of what are supposed to be the best drivers in the world ought to be able to drive down a little straightaway piece of road without running into each other. Everybody has a brake and an accelerator. If one of these drivers had a brain too, this wouldn't have happened...