Word: disgustfully
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Commenting on the Japanese war, his letter said, in part, "I want to take this opportunity to express my disgust of the treacherous actions of the Japanese aggressors and to say that I am sure that the American people will show as much heroism and staying power in repelling the Japanese as have shown the Russian defenders during the past six months...
...Gentile, a man of political action. He had been a trenchantly pro-Loyalist newspaper correspondent in Spain, where Franco forces had caught him and led him through the streets of Malaga in chains. He had been a member of the Communist party for seven years, had left it in disgust 18 months before the Stalin-Hitler pact...
...pajama-clad Yardlings assembled, and water began to seep under first floor doorsills, firemen determined the cause of the nocturnal deluge to be the mysterious melting of wax in a second floor sprinkler. Head Fire Chief Herman E. Gutholm was heard to mutier, as he drove away in disgust. "Sabotage, no doubt...
...crime, costume, melodrama, sex, childbearing, social climbing, wisecracking. Whiskey is tossed off by the decanter, money flung away by the bucketful, gangsters invade the marble halls, curtains bang down with gunfire. At the end, the younger members of the family, facing the world of 1941, rebel in "disgust, mistily resolved to serve America rather than swindle...
...middle of the year. He once told me that the responsibility of replacing a locally famous figure so over-awed him that for 25 years afterwards he had a recurrent dream: he dreamt that as he began to talk to his class, the students, with a look of disgust, got up one by one and in five minutes emptied the room. Perhaps the anxiety that lay behind this dream might account for the abruptness and at times even harshness, of Mr. Kittredge's class room manner; beneath his sometimes forbidding exterior he was a much shyer man than one would...