Word: chagrined
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...extraordinary publicity accorded Presidential press conferences invariably manages to lend a sense of urgency and drama to Administration announcements which they frequetly do not deserve. This is particularly true of the official chagrin Mr. Kennedy lately expressed over the grotesque size of the postwar emergency stockpile of strategic materials. Darkly, the President mentioned waste and profiteering, and encouraged Senator Symington's investigating committee to exorcise these ghouls as best it could...
Other officers include David Miller '64, of Winthrop House and Chagrin Falls, Ohio, School's Committee Chairman; John Tollack '64, of Quincy House and West Bend, Wis., Guides Committee Chairman; and Peter Lindenfelser '63, of Leverett House and Darien, Conn., Orientation Committee Chairman...
With him Adzhubei brought to Salinger an assortment of Armenian brandies-and an invitation to visit Russia in the spring. To the chagrin of many State Department regulars, who look with concern on Salinger's diplomatic dabblings, the President promptly approved the trip. In the amiable atmosphere, Adzhubei even suggested a child exchange. He offered to send his three sons, ranging in age from three to nine, to stay with the Salingers for a few months if Salinger would send his three children (Stephen; Marc, 13, and Suzanne, 10) to Russia to live with the Adzhubeis. Salinger said...
...blunder has been made by the Queen's advisers, and it is hard to see how they will extricate themselves from the booby trap." The London Evening Standard spoke like a firm but indulgent nanny; half a dozen other London papers chimed in with dismay, outrage, chagrin. Cause of the clamor-and envy: the news that Antony Armstrong-Jones is going to work for the opposition...
...vast chagrin of the sponsors of the 1964 New York World's Fair, which will have no official exhibitions from most of the nations of Western Europe, all B.I.F. members...