Word: disgusting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Reagan Administration's new combative strategy toward the U.N. may prove vital to the organization. For one thing, Washington's attitude implies a commitment to stay and fight, rather than simply withdraw in disgust. As Jeane Kirkpatrick, the controversial U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., told TIME Correspondent James Wilde: "We need a new departure. We must give more importance to the U.N. and take it more seriously, both in the positive and negative aspects. The U.N. is vital to American interests." The paradox is that as the U.S. strives to prove that point, the uproar is liable...
...failed at everything. "My idea of a perfect afternoon was lying in front of the radio rereading my favorite Big Little Book, Dick Tracy Meets Stooge Viller . . . seeing me having a good time in repose, she was powerless to hide her disgust. 'You've got no more gumption than a bump on a log,' she said," dispatching her errant son on some new mission of self-improvement...
...political scientists. American voters are not really committed to the laissez-faire precepts of Reaganism. The "moral economy" of the country has shifted unalterably to the presumption that people are entitled to a certain level of state-guaranteed economic protection Reagan's victory was but a "blip" born of disgust with Jimmy Carter's ineptitude. Thus, the stage is set's maybe the curtain rose on Solidarity Day--for the old coalition of labor, Blacks, and the poor to come roaring back into the streets and defend their hard-won economic rights...
Donovan insisted last week that he has no intention of resigning. In a statement to reporters, the grim-faced Secretary said that he would not discuss the allegations until the Silverman report was released. "I would, however, be less than honest if I did not state publicly my disgust with the relentless and cowardly attacks that have been made on me and my company...
DIED. Granville Hicks, 80, literary critic; in Kendall Park, N. J. A member of the Communist Party from 1934 to 1939, Hicks created an intellectual storm with his Marxist critiques of American and British writing. He quit the party in disgust over the Nazi-Soviet Pact, and in his later years wrote mostly apolitical criticism...