Word: disgusting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...been limited to his senior staff. According to FEC records, some of the smiling souls sporting Perot buttons and canvassing the country are workers hired from temporary agencies. They had to be taken on, according to a campaign spokesman, because so many of Perot's early volunteers left in disgust after the candidate pulled out in July. In California, Pennsylvania, Texas, Tennessee, Georgia, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Illinois and New York, Perot has spent at least $430,000 to keep his volunteer networks manning the telephones and walking the streets. Which goes to show that in politics as in business...
...incessantly, or gripped frenziedly at his mouth when describing his first kiss, speaking raptly of the meeting of tongues, the taste of gums, the feel of the roof of the mouth. And then, under the glare of a red light, he stripped off his clothes, trying to erase the disgust and guilt instilled in him as a child. However, this act was slightly spoiled by our haunting certainly that he might not have been so ready to bare his childhood "shame" if he had not had such a slender, youthful, muscular body to take pride...
...play aimless and amateurish. One Russian grand master advises patronizingly that Fischer must "realize that chess has changed in the past 20 years." World champion Garry Kasparov notes the "low level" of play in the match. "Incredibly low," says international master Alex Sherzer, with more than a trace of disgust...
...years Vietnam and Watergate had inured the nation to official lying. In 1976, 69% of respondents agreed in a national poll that "over the past 10 years, this country's leaders have consistently lied to the people." Today there is an almost bored tolerance of political lying, a disgust reflected in an increasing decline in voter participation, a corroded environment in which those who elect and those who are elected both lose. Whoever eventually wins, says the philosopher Sissela Bok, invariably discovers that his "warnings and calls to common sacrifice meet with disbelief and apathy, even when cooperation is most...
...with improving a society's values -- family or otherwise. Surely the values, if worth anything, must be more deeply embedded in the culture than the slogans of transient politicians. A Memphis construction company owner named J.D. Walker Jr. watched the Republican Convention last week and said in some disgust: "We want President Bush to know the American citizenry is not dumb. Don't keep telling us things will get better if we let you dictate how to run our personal lives. In my list of important things about this campaign, family values is fourth. Just ahead of that...