Word: chagrin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reactor core with cooling water if the main cooling system fails. Since the system has not ever actually been tested, not even in scale models, scientists have had to depend on mathematical models to decide whether it would really work. In the hearings, much to the AEC's chagrin, many of its own top nuclear-safety experts testified that "technically indefensible" assumptions were being made about the device. One AEC scientist even went so far as to label AEC rules governing operation of the cooling system "a triumph of hope over reason...
NEITHER, as he has discovered to his chagrin, does Richard Nixon...
...lobbyists left Washington and the ICBM's remained in their silos, protest again subsided. As Nixon flew off to Moscow to consummate some nefarious deal with the Soviets, the fear students felt about nuclear confrontation following his speech turned to chagrin. The bombing of the North continued unabated, but the sense of urgency it had initially prompted swiftly dissipated as students again re-entered Lamont and Widener for a few feverish days before exams...
...lobbyists left Washington and the ICBM's remained in their silos, protest again subsided. As Nixon flew off to Moscow to consummate some nefarious deal with the Soviets, the fear students felt about nuclear confrontation following his speech turned to chagrin. The bombing of the North continued unabated, but the sense of urgency it had initially prompted swiftly dissipated as students again re-entered Lamont and Widener for a few feverish days before exams...
...genuine fun. Poitier plays Buck, a guide whose job is to get wagon trains of poor blacks through the terrors of testy Indians and the sudden, brutal raids of freebooters hired to steer the wagons back to Louisiana, where the blacks are needed on the farms. Much to his chagrin, Buck is abetted by a smarmy and slightly balmy preacher (Harry Belafonte) who has a fine eye for the ladies and a decided interest in storing up worldly goods...