Word: disgusting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...found his needle. Then he briskly turned the pages and very likely discovered that the key to his success had mysteriously vanished. All that remained was the unravished pieces which pecked out from the binding in apology. Perhaps the person who tore the exam out did so in disgust at the outrageous demands of the course. But more probably, he couldn't spare ten minutes to recopy the questions...
...anonymous Chicagoan stated, "Harvard alumni throughout the nation hand their heads in shame and disgust at Harvard's tolerance for...pro-Red professors...
...General could pull France along to economic recovery, however, his other "shortcomings" might be swallowed with a minimum of disgust. For France cannot have political stability without this recovery, and a chaotic France means, to a large extent, a chaotic Europe. But it is unlikely that de Gaulle can bring recovery back to France. His advent to power will only mean a further split in that country, and in Europe. The West must place its hopes with the socialist moderates who now hold shaky authority, and recognize that a de Gaulle government will be a damaging defeat for the free...
Michigan's Wayne County Council of the C.I.O. was finally delivered from Red hands. Under Phil Murray's personal direction, anti-Communist unions that had been seceding in disgust for years, were ordered to re-apply for membership. When the Reds refused to seat them, an emissary from C.I.O. headquarters led the anti-Communists into a rump meeting, took over all books and records, and left the Reds holding an empty...
...Huxley was rebuked because she, her husband and some other delegates had shown their disgust at the billingsgate of the pro-Communist intellectuals, who formed a majority of the stacked meeting...