Word: disgusting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have a strong scientific skills and interests, but they are leaving the sciences after arriving here. That is why Harvard is mistaken in concentrating its efforts on the high school level. Campaigns to spark interest in science at an early age are useless if that interest is crushed by disgust in freshman year. Leo Clark '92 Applied Mathematics (Considering switching to Social Studies
...hundreds of meetings across the country, including Communist Party gatherings, people poured out their disgust, demanding that their former leaders be investigated and, if necessary, tried and punished. Inevitably, perhaps, the time for retribution had come. During one of the almost nightly mass rallies in Leipzig, the mood was summed up by a young speaker who condemned the regime, shouting "You treated us like a herd of cattle...
...general election, underestimating the potent challenge Giuliani was mounting under the tutelage of media meister Roger Ailes. In the closing weeks of the race, Giuliani nearly overcame Dinkins' double-digit lead in the polls. Giuliani launched a subtle appeal to the fears of white voters and exploited widespread disgust with the corruption that plagued Koch's final term by raising troubling questions about Dinkins' monumentally sloppy handling of his personal finances, including failure to file income tax forms for four years in the early 1970s...
...wasn't very successful. The game was on the line. This blond guy with the drawl turned the ball over three times. I shook my head in disgust and prepared to leave, two months of research down the drain...
...natural disasters, the earthquake somehow is the most unnerving. It is the earth talking, after all, and so it speaks with a primal power. Earthquakes in Scripture mean that God has crumpled up the order of the world and hurled it down in disgust. "And the foundations of the world do shake," says Isaiah. "The earth is utterly broken down." Or, agnostically, earthquakes are a wandering, enigmatic fierceness, now and then breaching the surface like Moby Dick...