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Word: dismayed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Golfer Louise Suggs "drops her shorts on each green" and suggested to Hollywood Composer Dimitri Tiomkin some popular lyrics for new movies: "You are a mess, you are my Sweet Smell of Success"; "The day they hanged my daddy, mother was just A Face in the Crowd." To the dismay of NBC brass, he lashed out at the New York World-Telegram's Critic Harriet Van Home because she accused him of a lack of brashness ("I don't know what that broad meant"). If Paar can keep the fun and games going, he would like to call...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Review | 8/19/1957 | See Source »

...Kiss & Dismay. At week's end Mary Leona went back to Baltimore. Gene gave her a dignified kiss and took her to a press conference. There, in response to a newsman's question, Mary admitted that she had been married once before-at 14, to another airman-but that the marriage was annulled after one day. Said she: "I'm through telling lies. Believe you me, it wasn't worth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Stairway to the Stars | 7/29/1957 | See Source »

...thought about actual results achieved. All told, the opinions documented the new concept of the court's functions as laid down by Chief Justice Earl Warren. TIME this week sets forth the gist of the decisions, analyzes their individual and collective importance, notes the dissents and feeling of dismay, and brings a reminder that the court is composed of men. See the first six pages of NATIONAL AFFAIRS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Jul. 1, 1957 | 7/1/1957 | See Source »

...infiltrated Catholic circles, spun a yarn about a Papist plot aimed at the assassination of Charles II, was exposed as a liar after a hue and cry both in and out of Parliament, was whipped from Aldgate to Newgate to Tyburn for his pains-and to everyone's dismay, lived to lie another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: On Congress' Investigations | 7/1/1957 | See Source »

Somewhat to the doctor's dismay, his patient rose up in wrath. To a man. the four-minute milers scoffed at his direct implication that they were hopped up for their races. Said Britain's Roger (3:58.8) Bannister, who first cracked the "barrier" in May 1954: "I have never even contemplated using such drugs myself." Don (3:58.7) Bowden, University of California miler who this month became the first American to go under the mark, called the charge "ridiculous and silly." Said Australia's world recordholder John (3:58) Landy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Souped-Up Athletes? | 6/17/1957 | See Source »

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