Word: disappoint
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...speed of a lot of flankers in this league." Another scout calls Carr "the best foot ball player I've seen this year"; a third predicts that he will be the first player picked in the pro draft. Meylan was "by far the best man on a disappointing Nebraska ball club." The pros like McGill's "determination and aggressiveness-and, as one scout says, "Notre Dame men don't disappoint you too often...
Since the purpose of the Confession was to call the church to its contemporary mission, it was not written as a system of doctrine. It doesn't include all the traditional topics of theology. The Confession will be a disappointment to those who are looking for restatements of old doctrines or for discussions of contemporary theological questions. It will disappoint any who would like to find either a theologically liberal or a socially conservative point of view. The Confession is orthodox, trinitarian, and biblical. Its social point of view is more inclined toward humane, political activism and advocacy than toward...
Despite some probable disappoint ments when and if the tariff cuts take effect on the scale indicated by the final bargaining, the free world should move a step closer to economic unity...
...clear that he intends to carry through on the many basic reforms that Castello began. So moved was he by the task facing him that at his first Cabinet meeting he broke into tears. "I hope to God," he said softly, "to live up to expectations and not to disappoint my country or my people...
...country. It would be to have two great conservative parties between which it might be possible to choose at random. And it would be to have liberalism as feckless, irrelevant and intellectually obsolete as Time in its more thoughtful moments regularly proclaims it to be. We shall continue to disappoint their words. And the Democratic Party will be either a liberal party or -- as Harry Truman rightly observed -- it will be a losing party. And while Democrats, from time to time, will unquestionably try the experiment of running without liberal support, they will, as invariably in the past, lose...