Word: disgusting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...could have insured a Crimson title. Brown's Scott Diehl and Andy New won the first set of their match, 6-1, but then choked on the next sets, losing, 6-4, 6-2, giving Yale the tie with Harvard. "They were terrible," Harvard's Sy Fountaine commented with disgust. "They won handily, then choked. They were nattering nabobs of nothingness...
...shall show this deceitful small animal breeder, this unfathomable little penny pincher with his lust for power, what I am really like," from Nov. 11, 1939).* At another point, the diarist related how Storm Trooper Chief Ernest Roehm "lied to me and deceived me," and then displayed his disgust with all his generals by commenting, "I absolutely need a new military command." Only one adviser seems to have earned his respect: Personal Secretary Martin Bormann. "This man Bormann has become indispensable to me," Hitler wrote on March 27, 1945. "If I had five Bormanns, I would not be sitting here...
...outfield starts to vanish in a thickening whiteness. The umpire gets morally confused. He stands with palms upraised, like a supplicant priest, and stares at the fat crystals falling onto his hands. At last, he calls the game, in wonder and disgust...
...British mandate, the Arab-Israel war, and the final re-establishment of Israel. She spent six months of research on the history of these bitter last 30 years but, as she later explained. "When I tried to write this as history, I could not do it. Anger, disgust, and a sense of injustice can make some write eloquent and evoke brilliant polemic, but the emotions stunted and twisted my pen." This lesson has remained with her throughout her work...
...savings to further refine the cannon, yet still managed to turn back a surplus of $124 million that had been allocated for the GAU8 program. He is proud. Dilger's reward? No promotion. A new, unattractive desk job. In 1980, colleagues say, he quit the service in disgust. Today Bob Dilger, 49, raises corn and cattle on a farm outside Xenia, Ohio...