Word: disgustfully
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Chamberlain was born in San Francisco, is on leave this school season to lecture at Harvard. Dr. Segre, an associate of the great Enrico Fermi, was born in Tivoli, Italy. Like Fermi, he came to the U.S. before World War II because of disgust with Italian Fascism. Both he and Dr. Chamberlain worked at Los Alamos on the atomic bomb, and Chamberlain helped explode the first test bomb at Alamogordo...
...last-chance hearings in an effort to help get the steel strike settled. When the session ended 4½ hours later, Chairman George William Taylor was still showing the unflagging amiability and hopefulness of the professional mediator, but the excitement and expectancy in the audience had soured into disgust at both sides. The fact finders had clearly silhouetted one big fact that the U.S. was discovering on its own: in the 14-week wrangling of the U.S's longest nationwide steel shutdown two immovable forces-Big Steel and the big United Steelworkers-had subjected the nation to an indignity...
Four years ago, when the voters of industrial Jaboatão 1,150 miles north of Rio, went to the polls to elect new municipal officers, they showed their disgust with the incumbent Red-lining regime by electing a goat named Fragrant to the city council. Last week São Paulo (pop. 3,650,000), Brazil's biggest city, was counting the votes after an election for city council, and once more the voters had turned to a four-legged friend. Top vote-getter (100,000) among 540 candidates for the 45-seat council: a five-year...
...concert in Bilbao, Spain. Sang Callas: "Unexpected things have happened, and the only remedy is to rise above them." To the disappointment of her Spanish audience, she barely managed to rise above middle C, moved one critic to write: "The Bilbao public demonstrated perfect manners in not showing greater disgust." Then it was back to her sailor-man, who was having something of a crisis himself. "All the fuss" over his choice of a traveling companion, groaned Onassis, was threatening to wreck his marriage (Wife Tina had gone to New York, reportedly to see her lawyer). Maria...
...just that the Italian government has been providing half Somalia's income. There was also the difficulty that, though camels are Somalia's chief source of wealth, much of the Somali nomads' grazing lands lie over the border in Ethiopia. To the frustrated disgust of Somali nationalists, moreover, French Somaliland voted last year to stay in the French Community, and the French, determined to hang onto their profitable Djibouti rail line to the interior, have made common cause with the Ethiopians against the dream of an independent Greater Somalia made up of all the territories occupied...