Word: disgusting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...what the blacks called racial slurs. Tension increased when demands for immediate reinstatement of five B.S.U. rioters were refused. Students held a sit-in at the administration building. In an embarrassing televised inquisition, the trustees interrogated the college's president, John Summerskill. Not long afterwards Summerskill resigned in disgust, forced out after just 21 months in office...
...threatened to fragment the nation's two-party alignment. The Alabamian, it was feared, would sunder the New Deal coalition of labor, Negroes and ethnic minorities by luring away hundreds of thousands of blue-collar workers; disaffected Dem-ocrats-and most Negroes-would sit out the election in disgust or apathy. Richard Nixon predicted confidently that a "silent center" would rise up with an overwhelming mandate for the Republican Party...
...sanctuary in the Andover chapel. Students have already pledged to support Paul Olimpieri with passive civil disobedience, should federal marshals come to remove him, and for a faculty that last fall supported divinity school students resisting the draft, it would tortuous to cast out a marine deserting in moral disgust at the Vietnam War or to condemn students trying to help...
...perhaps Eugene McCarthy. The big question is still whether McCarthy would accept. "It's highly unlikely," said one McCarthy aide. "Gene conceivably could take No. 2 to save the country-but to save Hubert Humphrey?" Several members of McCarthy's staff would probably resign in disgust if the Senator joined the H.H.H. ticket; the reaction of his youthful followers would be apoplectic...
...These past weeks, I have reviewed with horror and disgust my own inflammatory, biased and ill-considered remarks about the candidates, their policies, their motives and even their wives. What, indeed, had I to do with this latest paroxysm of violence? What can I possibly do to prevent another? I have no .22-cal. weapon to lay down, but I have preconceived opinions to lay aside, and harsh, irresponsible words to swallow...