Word: disgustful
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...Tower to leave its decadent city and return with him to Moscow. He visited the U.S. in 1925 and dutifully reported that it was a guardian of bigotry, cents and bacon " But as time went on, he found more and more to irritate him at home, saw with growing disgust the commissars making the rules for poets...
...Congolese soldiers were arresting every "suspicious" U.N. man in sight. A group of Norwegian soldiers fresh in from Europe were held as "Belgian paratroopers," and a Pakistan colonel was threatened with bayonets. "I give up!" shouted a U.N. brigadier from Ghana, throwing his garrison cap into the air in disgust after an argument with the Congo's comic-opera army commander. "This has become a complete farce...
...Montreal Tribune to become a Gentleman of the Press. But brrrr-tongued Managing Editor MacGregor, nicknamed Hitler by his staff, believes in starting everyone at the bottom, proofreading the galleys. On his night-shift "galley-slave" wages, Ginger cannot actually support his wife and teen-age daughter. To his disgust, Veronica gets a millinery job; to his shock, she leaves...
Author-Editor Hough (Country Editor, Thoreau of Walden} has published the Vineyard Gazette on Martha's Vineyard since 1920. and knows both New England and newspapering well enough to talk of them with fondness and disgust. He writes of a great American theme that Marquand treated more broadly in The Late George Apley and Santayana with more subtlety and depth in The Last Puritan. But Hough gives it the unique flavor of printer's ink and an old editor's green-eyeshaded wisdom. His novel, written in good journeyman's prose, is an effective polemic...
...Aneurin Bevan Minister of Health and then Minister of Labor and National Service. Bev an fathered the National Health Service, but when Attlee's new Chancellor of the Exchequer, Hugh Gaitskell, allotted more to armaments and less to welfare than Nye wanted, Bevan resigned from the Cabinet in disgust...