Word: disgusting
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Real rightists thought Nixon too had a squishy center. To the disgust of the Goldwater faction, he had spent much of the 1960 campaign courting Nelson Rockefeller, the lustrous epitome of the party's East Coast liberals. The last straw came on the eve of the G.O.P. Convention. At a meeting in Rockefeller's Manhattan apartment (read: Satan's throne), Nixon agreed to liberalize the G.O.P. platform, in part by adding an unequivocal civil rights plank. Goldwater compared the meeting to Neville Chamberlain's capitulation to Hitler at Munich. For the final insult, Nixon chose Massachusetts Senator Henry Cabot Lodge...
...HESTON'S DISGUST...
...first intemperate disgust at the media for pursuing the admiral even to his death, his ritual shame, his seppuku, erupted behind the question: Who cares? Who gives a damn if he wore a couple of battle decorations he should not have...
...sympathize at all with Kate Galbraith's "disgust and outrage" over Undergraduate Council election campaigns. "The deeper problem" to which Ms. Galbraith referred in her letter of March 29, "Undergraduate Council Campaigning Was Absurd," has nothing to do with the elections, but with the weak social life at Harvard...
...fruitful collaboration with the regime is especially peculiar because Ehrenburg was an early and vocal anti-Bolshevik. Born to a middle-class Jewish family in Kiev in 1891, he joined the Party in his teens but later quit in disgust at its intolerance and inability to understand art. Instead he lived as a Bohemian in Paris, making friends with Diego Rivera and Picasso. Even the Revolution didn't win him over to Communism; he returned to Russia in 1918, only to leave again three years later and write his first novel, The Extraordinary Adventures of Julio Jurenito and His Disciples...