Word: dismayed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Left Bank. On the left bank of the Rhine, dismay and confusion marched in Communism's ranks. Thorez & comrades, who had campaigned, along with the rest of France, for a Ruhr detached from Germany, found themselves suddenly in clear opposition to Russia. Said one member of the French Politbureau: " 'It never rains but it pours' was not a proverb invented by Karl Marx, but as far as we are concerned, it might as well have been. After the constitutional rebuff, the near defeat at the elections, last week's slapping down in the Chamber...
Soon a cross burned in front of a Jewish fraternity house on the University of Southern California campus; another illumined the house of a Los Angeles Negro. In Hollywood's cream-stucco Temple Israel, Rabbi Max Nussbaum, a Nazi refugee, gazed with dismay at the holy ark, ravaged by unknown vandals, and the swastikas and hate messages smeared on the walls of his temple...
...Dismay. Months ago the Big Three agreed that the South Tyrol (with 180,000 Austrians, 130,000 Italians) should remain in Italy because Italian industry needs the Tyrol's power plants. But nobody bothered to tell the Austrian Government of the decision. Last week Vienna reached the depth of dismay and disillusionment when it learned that the Paris Conference had awarded the South Tyrol to Italy...
Sirs: I had the pleasure of serving in London as a member of the delegation sent to that city by Philadelphia, to invite the United Nations to establish its permanent headquarters in our city. I therefore read with considerable dismay the article in the Dec. 10 issue of TIME, entitled "In the U.S. Tradition," which dealt with the presentation of invitations by American cities...
Last week Charlie La Follette startled but did not dismay the professional GOPsters of his state. He announced his candidacy for the Senate seat of stodgy, conservative Raymond E. Willis. Characteristically he stated: "The Republican Party is the vehicle presently available to the people to make it the radical party in America. 'Radical' means 'fundamental'; therefore it means 'forthright.' And forthright includes those intellectual and moral integrities which are essential to the maintenance of our republic. ... I want to see the Republican Party become the dominant party...