Word: disgusting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...officials. Enraged by Serb blockades that prevented U.N. food convoys from reaching 100,000 Muslims trapped in besieged towns in eastern Bosnia, Muslim President Alija Izetbegovic stopped distribution of U.N. relief supplies to the 380,000 residents of Sarajevo -- in effect pushing them into a sympathetic hunger strike. In disgust at the intransigence on all sides, Sadako Ogata, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, ordered a stop to all U.N. relief efforts until they can be carried out without hindrance. U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali promptly rebuked her and ordered shipments resumed, remarking, "I am supposed to direct this...
...first I thought my reaction to the signs (disbelief, disgust, anger and some confusion) was brought on by my hypersensitivity to the word "fag." This is not hypersensitivity. I felt like I was walking through the Republican National Convention during Pat Buchanan's speech...
...moved to weep, but rather to feel anger and disgust. This is not tragedy. The word tragedy would give this business too much moral elevation. What has happened in Bosnia is just squalor and barbarism -- the filthy work of liars and cynics manipulating tribal prejudices, using atrocity propaganda and old blood feuds to accomplish the unclean political result of "ethnic cleansing." The displacement of a million innocent civilians, turned into refugees, is not a consequence of the war, but precisely the purpose of the war. It has worked...
...politicians to find the puppeteers pulling the political strings. Two quick questions must emerge: What is this money being spent on and who will have to pay for this deficit spending? The answer to the first question may surprise you and the answer to the second should certainly disgust you. Has our glorious government ventured down the deficit trail in order to spend vast amounts of money on crucial national interests like education and the environment? In a word...
Mark Martone of Haverhill, Massachusetts, who killed his father, remembers abuse back to age five, when he told his dad he was scared of the dark. "Oh, Jesus Christ," said the parent in disgust. Then he led the terrified boy down to the cellar, handcuffed his arms over a rafter, turned off the light and shut the door. Mark dangled in silence for hours. "God forbid if I cried," he recalls. "I was just like a hanging Everlast bag, you know? Punch me, punch me." When Mark was nine, his father held the boy's hand over...