Word: nauseous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...appalling," grumbled H. G. Wells, "that this blinkered, pleasant, gossipy, gullible snob," Sir Samuel Hoare should be named British Ambassador to Spain. Wells was not the only one to wince. The nauseous memory of the Hoare-Laval Deal to appease Mussolini (1935) was still fresh. That of the Hitler-sweetening at Munich was even fresher. In 1940 Britain needed someone to talk straight, not sweet, to Spain's Franco. Sir Samuel hardly seemed the man. He had passed "from experience to experience, like Boccaccio's virgin," said a wag, "without discernible effect upon his condition...
...Allied invaders rooted deeper into the private life of Hitler's Reich, they bared some nauseous Nazi secrets...
...disposal of their persons and property as we and our Allies think appropriate. But let us not try to tell them what they may read or even what they may print. ... It will be irksome if the Germans rush into print at the end of this war with a nauseous literature of self-pity and self-aggrandizement. . . . [But] the redemption of the German spirit must come from the German mind...
...their looniest, Get Away, Old Man has some uproarious moments. But Playwright Saroyan's mad visions of Hollywood are curdled by his sour memories: for once, the theater's leading apostle of brotherly love is out to take a poke. His movie producer (Edward Begley) is a nauseous phony, a vicious heel. Saroyan is equally out to take a bow. His genius (Richard Widmark) of a scriptwriter bears a striking resemblance to William Saroyan himself. Noodledom, knavery and narcissism make a troublesome household...
...every right-thinking Philadelphian's civic pride. At the last moment, Franklin Roosevelt called the attacks on Bullitt a "mass of falsehoods." But the endorsement had no effect. Bill Bullitt was hurled back into private life; Barney Samuel got ready for four years of complaints about the nauseous drinking water, the unkempt streets, the lagging fire department, the unbuttoned police, the erratic taxes, and himself...