Word: disgusting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...third day, Dodger Augie Galan got tossed for kicking dirt at Umpire Barr (fine: $50). Dixie Walker followed-for flinging his glove in the air in disgust (no fine). In the final game, Brooklyn's hotheaded Ed Stanky had his $50's worth of fun. He threw his hat high in the air after a called third strike, and Umpire Barr again did his duty as he saw it-thereby setting a new record for canning players from consecutive games...
With the New Deal he went into politics as Under Secretary of the Treasury, quit in disgust six months later when the rubber-dollar advocates got Franklin Roosevelt's ear. But Lawyer Acheson, back in private practice, was still a New Dealer, did much behind-the-scenes work on foreign policy (notably the 50-destroyer deal). He came back into Government as Assistant Secretary of State...
...Lublin radio, in a Yiddish broadcast, announced last week that it had been decided to create a camp for Germans "and members of the German ethnical group" in the former Warsaw ghetto. The camp would be "a place of isolation on which everybody would look with disgust, a place to house those who wanted to murder and rape the entire world, a camp for men who have no right to the name of man but should be called beasts...
...since she ran away from her dull and snobbish husband. In one of the bedrooms lay Virginia's once-beautiful mother-an invalid whose sickness no doctor could diagnose. Home on furlough was son Vaughan, an R.A.F. squadron leader whose bombing forays over Germany had filled him with disgust and disillusionment. Orchilly's permanent guests were a Polish refugee pastrycook with a wife, a child, and a hereditary stomach ailment ("My motter die of vormce...
...stench of Buchenwald would reek in history. But how much of it was known to German civilians even in nearby Weimar? Sick with disgust, tough General George S. Patton ordered the burghers of the town to be taken through Buchenwald and shown its obscenities. Twelve hundred men & women of Weimar walked unwillingly through the camp and wept, retched, fainted. A young Hitler Madchen sobbed: "How awful...