Word: disgustful
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During the campaign, progressives insistently told compatriots who expressed disgust with the Kennedy drive that he still had "fine men around him." The "fine men" such as Stevenson and Bowles might well be dumped as ingloriously as the others that Kennedy no longer...
...Jean Dubuffet (roughly pronounced Doo-boo-FAY) started out as an unlikely candidate to be anything at all in the art world. His father was a prosperous Le Havre wine merchant, and Dubuffet barely escaped being the same. He tried painting for a while, then gave it up in disgust because he decided he was only imitating his Paris friends, Suzanne Valadon, Raoul Dufy and Fernand Léger. He went back to selling wine, got "a wife, furniture, a maid, a brother-in-law, a car, kids." Then one day before World War II he started to paint again...
...Marquise of O- was not popular in its day, and neither was its author, Heinrich von Kleist. He was a sickly, unprepossessing young German who had gone into the Prussian army like his father before him, but quit to the disgust of his family at the age of 21. After years as an itinerant student, he began to write a series of plays which his contemporaries were hardly aware of but were praised by later critics. One of the plays was burned by Goethe, who threw the manuscript into his stove because of its "damnable perversity...
...million-ton harvest. Many of the tractors needed to cut the crops before the first snow were out of order for lack of spare parts, grumbled Radio Moscow. Millions of bushels of cut grain were still lying out in the open because thousands of "volunteer" workers had quit in disgust with low wages and Kazakhstan's primitive living conditions. In a similar situation Nikita Khrushchev in January fired Kazakhstan's party secretary; the new fellow may soon...
This November, in other words, there will be two Labour parties in Westminster. Gaitskell has two choices: to fight and fight and fight again for constitutional revision, or to see his party lose in so many General Elections that disgust will force him to join the Liberal Party which he now so much dislikes...