Word: chagrined
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...past three months, the government has confiscated the press runs of three newspapers, seized the editions of four magazines. It has also brought criminal charges against seven journalists and sentenced two others to jail-all for violating the purportedly liberalized law. To their chagrin, newsmen found that the government could hold them or their publications accountable for any breach of a vague and all-embracing clause that demands respect for truth, morality, public order and the family honor of all Spaniards...
...Pennsylvania, is an extremely busy campus editor and honors student who admits that he is sometimes exasperated when students, faculty and administrators-not to mention TIME staffers-pester him at odd hours with queries, requests, suggestions and sometimes complaints about what TIME has said. How ever, his occasional chagrin disappears when a campus source, trying to put over an idea to TIME, will tell him, as one did recently: "See what you can do, Don. They listen to you there...
When citizenship time comes, Kaplan practices for the judge's (Rufus Smith) questions. Asked to recite the Preamble to the Constitution, the marvelously assured Kaplan rattles off the Boy Scout oath. "That isn't in the Constitution," he is told. His face momentarily clouded in mock chagrin, Kaplan replies, "It isn't? Well, it should be." Saturated with Tom Bosley's warm humanity and lit with his winning smile, Kaplan seems to exemplify what F. Scott Fitzgerald once defined as the essence of America-"a willingness of the heart...
...looser interpretation of the accords might avoid part of this mess, but to the chagrin of the Americans, the Indians, as ICC chairmen, have applied the unanimity provisions to the hilt. Until last week there was some doubt that the ICC would agree to the Cambodian and American plan entrusting it with surveillance of Cambodia's border. The Indians felt approval had to be unanimous and to secure Polish support, engineered a compromise which drastically limits the ICC role to investigating "specific complaints" after the fact...
...arrived to visit his grandfather, the deceased owner of the farm. A take-over type, he quickly gets himself invited to stay, while Jill giggles flirtatiously and March watches, wary and aloof. But it is March he wants-to her grateful astonishment and Jill's bitter chagrin...