Word: chagrined
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nkrumah's chagrin was complete moments later as he escorted the royal visitors through the hospital. Unknown to Osagyefo, a patient (for a glandular disorder) in one of the wards was seven-year-old Kwame Appiah, son of recently jailed Nkrumah foe, Joe Appiah, and his wife Peggy, daughter of Britain's late Sir Stafford Cripps. Unaware of the boy's identity, the Queen greeted him perfunctorily, then moved on. But prominently displayed on the child's bedside table was a photograph of his father and grandmother, Lady Cripps. Suddenly realizing who the woman...
...very pleased to see TIME publish three pictures of the Lehman Zoo for Children in Central Park [Oct. 13] and a very well-written brief of its use for and by the children. I also noticed, however, to my chagrin, that no mention was made of the architect...
...cardinal, overruling Article 232 of canon law, which prohibits brothers, first cousins, or an uncle and a nephew, from being cardinals simultaneously, as had previously been done by both Leo XIII and Pius XI, but to Gaetano Cardinal Cicognani the law was a constant source of worry and chagrin because it seemed to curb his talented brother. Once at a dinner a fellow prelate had jokingly said to Gaetano: "Because of you, your brother cannot become cardinal." Gaetano came close to bursting into tears and could not finish his meal...
Last week the official German Communist youth organ, Young World, gave vent to its chagrin. It ungallantly charged the U.S. with rigging the contest to call attention to East Germany's refugee problem: "It fitted wonderfully-an East Zone girl who 'chose freedom' and is beautiful, too." In East Germany, Marlene had been respected as an engineer, cried Young World indignantly, while in the West only her bust, waist and hips (36½-23-36) won admiration. And anyway, the newspaper warned Marlene, "You will only reign one year until the next contest...
Died. George Harrison Bender, 64, plodding, good-natured, seven-term Republican Congressman from Ohio, best remembered as Robert A. Taft's floor manager and bellringer at the 1952 G.O.P. convention; of a heart attack; in his Chagrin Falls home outside of Cleveland...