Word: dismay
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Kremlin would clearly have preferred a harsher punishment for Solzhenitsyn had he been less famous and more vulnerable, but exile had its political advantages. The author's deportation was unlikely to cause more than an intense but brief flurry of dismay at the 34-nation European Security Conference currently meeting in Geneva...
Solemn assurances have a way of evaporating under pressure in Richard Nixon's White House, as Prosecutor Jaworski discovered to his dismay last week. With Nixon pursuing yet another twist in his survival strategy;this time one of delay and resistance to continuing demands for Watergate evidence -a new clash loomed between President and prosecutor. Echoing Archibald Cox, the special prosecutor Nixon had fired last October for refusing to desist from pursuing presidential evidence, Jaworski said that he will not hesitate to go into court to get whatever White House documents and tapes he considers vital to his investigation...
...measures were a gauge of the Kremlin's dismay over the extent of Western press coverage of Gulag since its publication in Paris last December. In an effort to blunt the effect abroad of the book's disclosures of Communist repression, Soviet news stories sent round the world portrayed the author as an opponent of detente, allied with "hawks, Maoists and the followers of Hitler." At home, newspapers, periodicals, radio and TV continued to assault Solzhenitsyn with such epithets as "traitor," "blasphemer," "renegade," "fascist," "counterrevolutionary" and "enemy of the people." Party activists and policemen were out scouring factories...
...North Station. The electrified crowd occupied the time with chants of "We're number One," while several zealots took the campaign right down to the tracks. One of the less-than-sober fans climbed out after his fall by calmly stepping on the third rail, to the shock and dismay of gasping onlookers. He was not hurt...
That seemed to signal a new approach by White House attorneys: a turning away from past expressions of dismay at new revelations. St. Clair's pose was the more traditional defense lawyer's approach, seemingly