Word: disgusting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...every outfit-the sniveling, creepy little muckup who not only fails to pull his weight but manages to add it to the load carried by others. In his third novel, Author Peter Matthiessen, 33, has pinned him to the page as the prototype of the heel who arouses disgust in better men but touches off something uneasily protective in the best of them...
...orphanage, never knew a decent woman, never had a chance. He ducks his sea duty and Charlie Stark fills in for him. He is loud, cowardly, physically repulsive and yet arrogant. In a sensitive character probe which recalls the sharp male insights of Joseph Conrad, Author Matthiessen shows how disgust and almost unwilling compassion are at war in civilized Charlie Stark and how compassion always wins. Raditzer's only defense against the naked revulsion of his fellows is the claim that Stark is his buddy. And Stark, admired by everyone and abused by his protege, refuses to let Raditzer...
...opportunity of observing at least one gentleman who is evidently in the some unfortunate position: during the three quarters of an hour in which I strove to read, he slept soundly and somewhat heavily in his chair, and was still asleep when I finally gave up and left in disgust... Varian Fry '30 Harvard CRIMSON, January...
Eleanor Roosevelt came away from the Broadway hit version of Advise and Consent filled with "depression and disgust," she reported in her syndicated column. "I know how ruthless and how utterly discouraging politics can be. I think I know how to remember one's friends and how to fight against one's enemies. But I have seen this done without stealing, without doublecrossing and without threats." Particularly worried by the impression the show might make on Manhattan-based U.N. delegates, the one-time First Lady angrily declared: "If this were wartime, I think one would cry treason...
...palace shouting "Elections-down with Communism-out with fellow travelers." President Osvaldo Dorticos offered to talk to Fraginals if the demonstrators dispersed, and Fraginals told his men to hold union headquarters against possible police attack. Fraginals waited in the palace for hours to see the President, then left in disgust...