Word: disgusting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile, the Fourth Republic's highest criminal court would remain suspended until either the comrades backed down, or the National Assembly set up a new judicial procedure. All but the leftist newspapers cried out in disgust. Said Combat, for a majority of Frenchmen: "The Communists do not want justice but a strictly political jurisdiction. In the eyes of the world [they] have scuttled French justice more effectively than the admirals sank our fleet at Toulon...
...attitude. Recently Monterrey, tied with Vera Cruz in the 14th inning, had a man on second. On a safe hit to left, the base-runner held up at third. Ex-Dodger Olmo, dozing in the field, thought the winning run had already crossed the plate. To show his disgust he fielded the ball, then turned and threw it-and the ball game-out of the park...
...first unpalatable taste of politics. National finances were in chaos after 20 changes of government in five years. Salazar was invited to come to Lisbon to straighten them out. He took a look at the parliamentary confusion and, in deep disgust, demanded a free hand with the Treasury. Refused, he caught the next train back to the sedge-lined banks of the Mondego. He expressed his contempt for Lisbon's attempts at democracy and said that "one of the greatest mistakes of the 19th Century (which created the 'citizen'-an individual isolated from the family, the class...
...C.I.O.'s United Furniture Workers of America were in an uproar. Hassock-shaped Morris Muster, overstuffed (215 lbs.) U.F.W.A. president, had quit in disgust after nine years in the union. Two days later a Southern district president followed him out. Said Muster, 20,000 members were in open revolt. Their reason: U.F.W.A. had been taken over by its Communist faction; the new executive board was dominated by Stalinists...
...China to run messages for correspondents covering the Boxer Rebellion. His father, Robert W. Patterson, was Joseph Medill's crown prince on the Tribune, and gave young Joe his first $15-a-week job. Impatient with the plodding Tribune and full of admiration for Hearst, he quit in disgust, won a seat in the Illinois legislature, stumped Chicago for a reform candidate for mayor, was rewarded with the job of public works commissioner...