Word: dismay
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Commission for Women, a committee of 15 women faculty members appointed by Michigan to moniter university progress in implementing hiring plans, "noted Fleming's appointment with dismay...
...scale of Nixonian surprises, it registered only as a medium astonishment. Yet the President's nominations to fill the two vacant Supreme Court seats were delivered last week in a shrewd performance that left his critics, for the moment, in contortions of simultaneous dismay and relief...
...transition. Numerous crises are now accompanying the change and will continue to do so, as mankind struggles towards its own unification. The great grandson of Baha'u'llah once wrote: "Leaders of religion, exponents of political theories, governors of human institutions, who at present are witnessing with perplexity and dismay the bankruptcy of their ideas, and the disintegration of their handiwork, would do well to turn their gaze to the revelation of Baha'u'llah, and to meditate upon the World Order which, lying enshrined in his teachings, is slowly and imperceptibly rising amidst the welter and chaos of present...
...they never overcame my dismay. If, as my program tells me, the opening of the Old Library Theater marks "a dynamic new era in the history of the House"--why, fellows, did you pick something as stale as Greasepaint for your opening volley...
...speculation-and dismay-over a Byrd nomination spread, however, White House sources began insisting that he was not a serious candidate. Yet his name appeared on the list of potential appointees submitted to the American Bar Association last week. The others...