Word: disgustful
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...Hope. More revealing are the psychological interviews. Private L. of the Marine Corps was in for having struck two NCOs, one of them simply because he did not feel like putting a rifle together as ordered. His admission: "I can't live with a lot of people. They disgust me and I just feel like taking off." Private L.'s only goal seemed to be solitude; he had no dates, and even drank to "sit by myself and just drink and think." An I-2 tagged as "emotionally immature, aggressive," Private L. fully expected that he would...
...Malraux became Minister of Information in the brief Provisional government of General Charles de Gaulle. When De Gaulle retired in disgust, Malraux retired with him, disillusioned with the inefficiency of France's bureaucracy. "To know how foul it really is," said Malraux, "one must be in it, one must be married to it, and be frustrated by it as a man is by a wife with whom he is hopelessly coupled...
...Babel tells how his dearest childhood dream was to own some pigeons. One day the excited ten-year-old is racing home with his first set of birds, when a pogrom erupts. A crippled dealer in stolen Jewish goods grabs the boy's sack, and, opening it in disgust, smashes one of the pigeons against the boy's face: "The guts of the crushed bird trickled down from my temple . . . A piece of string lay not far away, and a bunch of feathers that still breathed. My world was tiny, and it was awful...
...joined Sen. Humphrey in buttering up the Hearst newspapers. "Ave" appointed Hearst Corporation President and McCarthy's great pal, Richard Berlin, to the Saratoga Springs Commission. The job is unimportant and unpaid, but there is some honor attached to it. Words fail me to express my dismay and disgust at such hypocrisy. Has Harriman so quickly forgotten what happened to Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. when he lost his liberal support by playing up to its enemies? As for Adlai. he is intellectually far superior to any other candidate, but the reiteration of his uncertainty concerning his plans reminds...
...variety in their background, income, jobs, accent and future, there is a common feeling threading through the different levels of French youth. It is some mixture of disorientation, disgust, disinterest, disappointment and dis enchantment, all resulting in me fiance - a distrust for the powers that be. There is, lying deep down below the soil, a seed of revolt. It may never burst into violent revolution...