Word: disgustful
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...read the article with quite some surprise, not to mention disgust. The tone . . . was deplorable. In short, it sounded to me as though TIME might be harboring a little ill feeling toward Masonry...
...half of 1948. The tax bore little relation to income, was based instead on a firm's "past reputation and business attitude." There was also the nightmarish question of exit visas. No one had been refused a visa to date, but as more & more businessmen gave up in disgust and prepared to go home, the Communists set up increasing complications. Samples: applicants for exit visas now had to advertise their intention of leaving China in the local press and all labor problems had to be "satisfactorily settled...
...assert that the persecutors of Christ and Stephen were "proper Communist gangs." Outraged members wanted to shut off Willie's blasphemy, but the speaker ruled regretfully: "I do not think there is any rule which makes it out of order, but I must say it fills me with disgust." After almost seven hours of debate the House voted, 412 to 4, to extend the government's emergency powers for a month...
...find his way through either. Herberger blamed his troubles on deadwood in the company -and hacked away. So many officers and employees left that gagsters called Butler Bros, the Montgomery Ward annex. Finally, aging Thomas Freeman, who was boosted to chairman when Herberger replaced him as president, quit in disgust...
...Mary Elkin Moritz of Lexington, Ky. left the bulk of her $20,000 estate to her cousin Roy T. Elkin, "provided that from this day on he does not add the 's' onto his name . . . His father started this foolishness years ago, much to the disgust of the Elkin family . . . Roy can take his choice...