Word: dismay
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last night at Adams House I went to a seminar sponsored by the Institute of Politics and held by Seymour Hersh of the New York Times, a man of whom I had the highest opinion. I wanted to see him and to hear him speak. To my dismay, instead of the honest journalist I had expected I found a bigot, who began a story of a German doctor in Vietnam by telling us that there was a "German hospital ship off Danang treating GI's, presumably Germany's contribution to the free world's effort-which perhaps should have been...
About an hour before the plane landed in New York, two U.S. embassy officials from Moscow gave the pilots new uniforms, complete with decorations and name tags. The change caused some dismay among the antiwar escorts, who accused the embassy men of coercion. Major Elias, who plans to continue his Air Force career, denied the charge and angrily retorted: "I wasn't forced to put on my uniform." He sat back in his chair and smiled when the big jet finally touched down at J.F.K. When they emerged from the plane, all three men were back in military garb...
Republican candidates in the congressional elections of 1970 suffered badly from public dismay over a jobless rate that had just hit 5.6%. Yet in this year's campaign, with the rate also at 5.6%, unemployment has practically disappeared as a political issue. Only 13% of the likely voters queried in the latest TIME Poll conducted by Daniel Yankelovich Inc. listed it among their worries...
...What a silly question," he returned with dismay...
...thematic similarities are striking. Charles, the elderly owner of a consistently expanding watchmaking firm, finds himself suddenly filled with revulsion at his lifelong impulse to prosperity and bourgeois respectability. Much to the dismay of his still business-minded son, he disappears from home and takes up secluded residence with a bohemian artist, the artists wife and Charles's own daughter. Father and daughter take up the political education of their hosts, until Son finally catches up with Father, and Charles is taken off to a mental hospital...