Word: chagrin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...silenced by intimidation, exile or the imposition of prison terms, administrative detention, or house arrest. No dissidents were known to be active at year's end." Ironically, the survey was released even as two U.S. delegations were visiting China to talk about trade and human rights. Much to the chagrin of human rights activists, President Clinton delinked the two issues in his first term, a line new Secretary of State Albright seems to be following. She promised "to tell it like it is on the human rights issues" when she took office last week, yet warned that the overall relationship...
...lunch, if only for the shock value it has in startling her mother. She has become a vegetarian who protests for animal rights and bewails the meaninglessness of grades. She has changed her major and her boyfriend more times than she can count, much to her mother's chagrin. But Jane has also changed since the two last saw each other. She has a boyfriend, her supervisor at work, who happens to be coming to lunch. As much as she complains about not knowing what her daughter is doing, Jane hasn't given Azalea the full story on her life...
...jammed with the onslaught of visitors. Energized by the fiery and historic competition and hoping for another exciting victory--go Harvard, go!--I start to hum some Harvard "fight" songs as I walk along Plympton Street towards the river. "Ten thousand men of Harvard," I begin, noting with chagrin the odd looks I get from random passers-by and fellow Harvard students. Subdued, but only slightly, I continue, "want victory today...
...School of Government. While This Town exposes the Washington culture that feeds what Mr. Dole sees as the White House scandal machine, its target is not the residents of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., but rather the pack of wolves officially known as the White House Press Corps. Much to the chagrin of Mr. Dole and Clinton-bashers everywhere, This Town ridicules the famous "-gates" of newspaper headlines and Letterman monologues (Travelgate, Filegate, even Nanny-gate). These "scandals" are revealed as nothing more than ridiculous, inconsequential products of journalistic attempts at self-promotion...
Much to the staff's chagrin, final clubs won't wither away any time soon. The staff's position in just a manifestation of the sour grapes gnashing between the bitter teeth of those who aren't invited to the clubs...