Word: disappoint
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...international aims had sunk to "a stammering of scarcely sensible noises," as Author Hughes asserts, he would have no audience to address. If latter-day U.S. foreign policy had failed as persistently as Author Hughes argues it has. there would be no great expectations to invoke or disappoint, either at home or abroad...
...schoolboy and a beautiful but dumb stripteaser on a Riviera whirl-all financed with stolen money. Before the boy winds up in the pen, the judge asks: "Is it Mademoiselle Sagan who has put all these ideas in your head?" Answers the accused: "I don't want to disappoint Mile. Sagan, but I think the idea was in the air long ago and will outlive...
From 5,000 "Active Young Builders of Socialism" meeting last week in Peking, the Central Committee of Red China's Communist Party got a love note: "Our generation of youth will always rally closely around the party and go wherever the party tells us ... We will never disappoint the party in its earnest hopes and will strive to accelerate the building of socialism and to realize mankind's noblest ideal-Communism-in our generation and by our own hands." To millions of hand-blistered Chinese students, the last phrase must ring with ironic accuracy. For much...
...After a girl handed him a broom "to sweep them all out in 1960." photographers gleefully demanded a flurry of retakes. Clutching the broom, an embarrassed Stevenson advanced grimly on a squad of girls bearing "Don't say no, Adlai" placards, mumbled helplessly: "I'm sorry to disappoint you-I'll try to find another candidate...
...staccato sociology, couch jargon or four-letter words, Lolita is the more shocking because it is both intensely lyrical and wildly funny. It is (in many of its pages) a Medusa's head with trick paper snakes, and its punning comedy as well as its dark poetics will disappoint the smut hounds-a solemn breed...