Word: dismaying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other kind of student, the one who was told by the Admissions Office that he's just the material Harvard wants, and then discovers to his dismay that he's not after all; this sort of student really has no alternative here short of dropping...
Responsible and brainy, Morton has lately harbored an anguished heart. He painfully broke with Lyndon Johnson on the Viet Nam war, looked with dismay at Dirksen's troglodyte image, and saw his party heading for a replay of the 1964 Goldwater debacle. George Romney bored him, Charles Percy faded, and Morton talked up Nelson Rockefeller to his friends. Lately he had become resigned to having a Richard Nixon ticket. Optimistic friends hoped that with an influx of G.O.P. moderates next year, Morton might even oust Dirksen from the Senate leadership. An innately shy man, Morton saw little hope...
...Harvard, the professor's secretary gasped: "Aren't you the artist who did the Beatles?" Rather pleased at the recognition, Scarfe admitted that he was indeed the creator of the papier-máché figures that brightened TIME'S cover on Sept. 22. To his dismay, the worried young lady whisked off, saying that she had to "warn" her boss. When Scarfe was finally ushered in to meet his subject, the long, lean economist rumbled: "The last thing I want to give you is artistic direction, but are you going to do the same sort...
There are other limitations. A strong nation can shrug off the disapproval of its friends-but not for long, as Britain learned to its dismay when world opinion forced it to retreat from Suez in 1956. It does not follow, however, that when friends agree with a course of action, their aid can be counted on. It is a paradox, says General Alfred M. Gruenther, that "our power tends to hurt the alliance system." The U.S., he points out, "seems so mighty that our smaller allies stand aside...
...intensely practical, no-nonsense man, without any delusions about the draft. He admits the system is unfair, inequitable, and coercive, but justifies sticking with it because he lacks a better one that works. Although he originally opposed a random-selection draft system, he new favors it and views with dismay those Congressmen "too set in their old ways to accept a new idea on its merits." He is disappointed that the Marshall Commission's reform package was "broken up by Congress and left a grotesque thing that doesn't make sense...