Word: disappoint
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Henry Lamar might want to scout a few high school games in season, and drop around to the locker room after the game. It wouldn't disappoint the old grads in the end zone if an undefeated Harvard played Yale for a change...
...Secretary was polite and cautious, but in his own conservative way he did not disappoint them. He had high praise for previous cooperation between the U.S. and Latin America in joint cultural, educational and health projects. When he came to the future, he dotted no i's, crossed no t's, but he did make a firm commitment. Said Acheson: "Almost every kind of project contemplated in the worldwide program [of help to undeveloped areas] has been developed and tested in cooperative [InterAmerican] programs . . . Present plans include a substantial expansion of these joint activities in this hemisphere...
...cast a sardonic glance around. Most of new Editor Ruppel's worried staff, who had heard about his temper, his Anglo-Saxon expletives and "off-with-their-heads" methods, half-expected to be eaten alive. Editor Ruppel, though still recovering from a spinal operation, did not entirely disappoint them...
Published in two installments, Barth's essay might disappoint those who were looking for a stiff workout in theology. Instead he served up a chattily informal account of his past ten years (even including an operation for hernia). But among the trivia are passages of larger interest...
Satchel, who might have ranked with such major-league greats as Mathewson, Walsh and Johnson had he been born white, and given a big-league chance before he was 44, was too good a showman to disappoint a crowd like that. Sticking mainly to his fast ball against the last-place Chicago White Sox, Paige worked with the kind of control that is almost a lost art among modern pitchers. He walked only one, struck out five, let only two runners get past first, won his fifth victory...