Word: nauseous
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...York Times had called the Peiping conference the "nauseous force" of a "compact little oligarchy dominated by Moscow's nominees." But the Moscow press hailed it as one of the year's two "stupendous events"-the other being Russia's explosion of an atomic bomb...
...planet Venus to hunt xixtchil, a scarce, rejuvenating drug, searched desperately for a way to save himself and his lovely companion, Pat Burlingame. They had been backed into a fearsome dusky canyon by the "doughpot," one of the most monstrous creatures on the whole planet. A white mass of nauseous protoplasm weighing several tons, the doughpot had neither intelligence nor any fixed form: it just rolled itself instinctively toward anything edible...
...boorish and heartless exhibitions of snobbery, Captain Donald F. Smith's conduct in connection with "Miss Quonset Point" [TIME, May 2] ranks among the more nauseous of modern times. Courtesy to a "sweep-woman" could not possibly have besmirched his dignity as his act has besmirched the Navy...
TIME hits a new low [April 4] with so much space devoted to Diego Rivera. Even his leering likeness on your cover is more nauseous to my stomach (uncultured though it may be) than any amount of overripe duck...
...lady from Baltimore wanted to send her son to school. But the good boarding schools were mostly in New England, and she thought that her son was too young to be sent that far from home. Baltimore's public schools "gave off a nauseous odor," in the words of the city's own health commissioner. They were cramped and dingy, had no place where their pupils could play. So Mrs. Francis Carey rounded up a handful of like-minded mothers and they founded a school of their own-the first country day school in the U.S. Last week...