Word: disappointed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Clearly the "Trudeaumania" that swept Canada with Trudeau's election in 1968 has withered. When they put him in office, Canadians thought that they were getting a lively Kennedy-like leader, and for a while he did not disappoint them. He appeared in the House of Commons in ascot and sandals, frugged, dated Barbra Streisand, and in general looked and behaved more like a playboy than in the usual stodgy manner of Canadian Prime Ministers. He also fashioned solid accomplishments such as his firm handling of the separatist crisis in 1970, pushing a tax reform through the Commons...
THIS CHRONICLE of the inception and growth of an experimental community named Twin Oaks will undoubtedly disappoint corporatist radicals and behavior-modification devotees alike. Given the circumstances, however, the disappointment is edifying. The society fashioned in front of the reader's eyes is an object lesson, inadvertantly so--encouraging not its emulation, but critical examination of a theory of human behavior both untenable in itself and thoroughly at odds with any revolutionary program...
CHUL members, who represent the sometimes conflicting interests of different groups in the University, agree that any housing plan will redistribute problems rather than solve them. Any housing plan they concoct will inevitably disappoint some students...
...always realize a quick increase in sales when the price comes down. Many U.S. imports, such as inexpensive radios, have little domestic competition and do not suffer a swift sales slide when prices rise. Thus, it is easy to foresee a sequence in which new currency realignments would disappoint dollar holders by not changing the basic situation quickly enough. Triffin gloomily foresees a period of "two or three dollar crises a year...
Dowling didn't disappoint them, in 1949, he directed Yale to an 8-1 recorded and an Ivy tide, Dowling won the Harvard-Yale game with some last-minute heroics tossing a 66-yard pass to tight and Del marting to squeeze by, the Crimson, 24-20, Dowling threw two TD passes that day: the other one came on a 53-yard screen pass to Clvis Hill, now with the Dallas Cowboys...