Word: disgustful
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...noontime, the salesman outside Mem Hall had practically given up in disgust, and wiled away the hours between the occasional customers by chatting with the many pulchritudinous Dean's secretaries and Bursar's Office beauties working inside...
...more than to reach across the table for a dry Martini. As he looked at his feet, perched lackadaisically on the desk in front of him, the thought crossed his mind that the major part of their existence had been spent in just such a position. A feeling of disgust crept over...
...suggests Freddy the Detective: it generally turns out to be just what he wanted, though it has no murders and Freddy is only a pig. Titles, says Miss Fenner, are important. One of her second-graders picked up a book, Science Stories for Youngest Readers, and dropped it in disgust, exclaiming: "That's too young...
Much to its disgust, the battery served as an infantry outfit in the battle at Contreras in the Mexican War-the only occasion when it had no big guns to work with. Battery D was the first unit rushed to Washington during the Civil War to look after the capital's defenses, saw action at Antietam, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg. In World War I, the battery spread its death-shade at the Marne, Cantigny, the Argonne, Saint-Mihiel, was among the last units to return from France. Many of its numerous battle streamers were won in World...
...last week found themselves the bearers of a new responsibility. Menaced-so they really believed for the first time-from the air, San Franciscans and Los Angelenos hugged the radio as if it were mother's knee. At first, as elsewhere in the nation, people exploded with sudden disgust at the remnants of saccharine sales talk lilting from loudspeakers...