Word: disgusting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lizard shoes and I got silk shirts. I'm the Man, boy. I changes my clothes 15 times a day. Learn to hustle girls, and you can wear dark shades and sharkskin suits and ride a big white Caddy." Riff the horn player sniffs in disgust. "You've got to have dignity, boy, you be nothing without dignity. The only way to beat the Man is be going to school. Go back to school...
...school board near Lincoln, Neb., considered leaving the program, partly out of disgust with the paperwork involved. Cafeteria managers must follow the Agriculture Department's 111-page guide for school food service, and each day someone must fill out an 18-column sheet listing all financial details of every meal served and sold. The board decided to stick with the program, because without subsidies its schools would probably have had to stop serving its 98 free and 102 reduced-price meals each day. Though the students who eat those meals are a minor fraction of the district...
...there's no other city to live in. Live here for six months, and you'll feel it in your veins," an affluent and highly educated aunt told me. The sight of grown men sharing their food with dogs and little kids using the streets as a toilet evokes disgust, and even more sickening is the ubiquitous stench of the stagnant and deadly rain water that never evaporates from the gutters. The word "poverty" loses its meaning because there is so much of it. The people somehow lead stable lives in these worst possible conditions, and the life...
Deputy Defense Secretary Frank Carlucci promises multiyear funding of weapons contracts. That could lure back into defense work some subcontractors who have quit in disgust, and the military budget bill passed by the House last week approves the idea. The Defense Department is also likely to ask Congress for about $500 million in fiscal 1983 to help defense contractors expand production, and $1 billion a year thereafter. Some of the money would probably be used to design and buy Government-owned production machinery for use by defense manufacturers. The Administration is drafting a bill to clarify and broaden its powers...
...lost my Jewish parents in Treblinka and endured twelve years of Israeli citizenship, including combat in three wars. Nevertheless, I emigrated from Israel in disgust with Begin's settlement policy on the West Bank. The raid on the Iraqi reactor was pure electioneering...