Word: disgustful
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...legion of Hearstlings dredged the morgues for picture-page art. In Albany, a squad of Times-Union reporters was sent out to round up MacArthur votes and quotes, under stern orders not to take no for an answer. (At week's end, one reporter quit in disgust.) In Washington, MacArthur campaign offices were opened right "next to the Republican National Committee" with some of the black type usually reserved for ax-murderers...
...invite common people off the street to pose for him, he imitated the impossible glare of sunshine, and he even dared to picture nudes in contemporary settings. Napoleon III himself pronounced Manet's Déjeuner sur I'Herbe (see cut) a threat to public morals. Public disgust was summed up in one word-a word delivered with the sneers reserved for "abstractionism" today-"realism...
...money in it. A few days later Nelson summoned Joe to pose with Governor Dwight Green for newsreel pictures. Said Joe: "I didn't shave and didn't wear a necktie to the Governor's office. That was my way of showing my disgust...
...been exiled from their drab lives in this country of Virtue and Gloom, with its mean vindictive Work or Want posters on every street corner; a slogan fit for a state orphanage or reformatory school, and which makes every self-respecting worker's stomach turn in disgust. . . . Two more years of this, and Labor will have irretrievably wasted its historic chance...
...latter explanation is correct and the prestige of the Council has sunk so low that it cannot attract sufficient manpower for its functions, the policy of appointment to the Student Council is no remedy. Not only is this policy entirely undemocratic, but it leaves such disgust in these not inclined to oligarchic philosophies that the prestige of the Student Council must inevitably suffer...