Word: disgusting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stubborn, high-strung Ted Schroeder, ex-Navy flyer and onetime U.S. singles champion (in 1942), never could sleep soundly the night before a big tennis match. Sometimes he got out of bed in disgust and ate a 4 a.m. breakfast. Last week, the hot, humid weather in Melbourne was no help. And it was no help either that he was the unexpected dark-horse choice to help Jack Kramer (TIME, Dec. 30) win the Davis Cup back from the Australians...
...straws for the dean of Beacon Street was the simultaneous award last June of honorary Doctor of Laws degrees to four of the nation's top war commanders. When Generals MacArthur and Marshall return to pick up the two additional degrees promised them in their absence, Mr. Sargent's disgust will probably be complete. It has a right to be. Not only did the University go out of its way to kowtow to the brass, but its entire handling of the honorary degree situation served, not to enhance Harvard's prestige, but rather to bring it down to the sorry...
...read your article about the German scientists [TIME, Dec. 9] and almost cried with disgust...
Vehemently protesting when told that a two months' wait must ensue before his name reaches the top of the list for dental overhauling, many a student has left the Hygiene Building in disgust. An eight weeks delay while awaiting replacement of a lost filling, drilling-out of a cavity, or a cleaning job seems a long, long time. Of course, really important emergency work of any sort gets immediate treatment, but the routine repair cases find themselves at the bottom of an interminable column of names. And, though perhaps to a lesser extent, medical care of a less-than-immediate...
...postponement. MacArthur went ahead anyway. As the Atlantic Monthly says, "held too soon, the election... put back into power the old industrial, banking, and conservative interests... which had in fact organized the sinews of war." Their Diet has slowed down reform, and left-wing parties are resorting in disgust to demonstrations and strikes while the legislators haggle about female succession to the throne...