Word: chagrined
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...converter," he jeered, "a squalid act of political expediency by a prime minister who puts political powers before his principles and beliefs." Heath's biting attack, as he taunted Wilson with every promise he had ever made to take over steel, stemmed perhaps as much from his chagrin at the loss of the Tories' best issue against Wilson as from his desire to embarrass the government...
...never be quite the same again. Even before the aluminum industry backed down, Chase Manhattan Bank President David Rockefeller warned: "We are in danger of backing inadvertently into a managed economy; this is not the high road to the good life." After the backdown, many businessmen expressed disappointment and chagrin. Even on Johnson's own staff, there were grumblings...
Aided by a special mime-superviser, Mme. Claude Chagrin, director of John Dexter has piloted his forty or so players with a sure hand. At the performance I saw, a few of the smaller parts were not well spoken, but these should improve. The role of narrator-page Martin Rulz does not greatly tax the outstanding skills of George Rose, but he handles it splendidly...
...more than a decade, the most reliably raucous of Peking's Asian allies was North Korea's Kim Il Sung. No longer. Since early this year, Kim has been steering an increasingly independent course. To Moscow's delight and Peking's chagrin, Kim & ; Co. chose to keep silent in the current Indo-Pakistani crisis; even over the explosive issue of Viet Nam, North Korea has been less vitriolic than Peking wishes...
Died. Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant, 83, friend and biographer of two U.S. literary pillars (Willa Gather: A Memoir; Robert Frost: The Trial by Existence), among whose reminiscences were Gather's abject chagrin at Henry James's polite refusal to read her novels and Frost's nagging suspicion that his wife was his intellectual superior; in Manhattan...