Word: chagrined
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Adenauer's troubles were far from over. Though Strauss was out of the way, the political repercussions over Publisher Augstein's arrest now had blossomed into what newspapers were calling a "Chancellor crisis." To der Alte's chagrin, even his own C.D.U. colleagues had begun to raise the leadership issue. Everyone, it seemed, felt it was about time for Adenauer to step down. In a heated meeting, they asked him insistently to declare his intention to resign by next fall, so that the party might groom a successor in time for the 1965 general elections. Adenauer...
...Chagrin Falls, Ohio...
...good time for a pogrom. "America performs a disservice in raising the spectre of anti-Semitism," said Rabbi Elmer Berger of the American Council for Judaism. In a joint statement, the leaders of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations and the Central Conference of American Rabbis reacted "with chagrin and disappointment" to America's "threatening and patronizing statement," tossed back at the Jesuits a paraphrase of their own question: "What would be the Catholic reaction if a Jewish publication were to publish an editorial entitled 'To Our Catholic Friends,' warning Catholics to cease their campaign for public...
...After King's death, Rockefeller learned to his chagrin that the Canadian Prime Minister was a spiritualist, who sought counsel at seances with his dead mother...
...John D. Jr.'s efforts to bring his sons up as normal children, the brothers could never escape the fact that they were Rockefellers. When David, at five, insisted on roller-skating to school like the other children, he was allowed to do so?but to his chagrin a nurse tagged along and a chauffeured limousine cruised near by in case he got tired. And from childhood on, wherever he went, David was continually coming up against institutions that his family's money helped to keep open. It was at one of these, the New York Museum of Natural History...