Word: chagrined
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sarah Johnson's debutante party took place last night, much to the chagrin of the Rhode Island Rams...
...Paonia, Colo., Joy MacNulty, 69, isn't taking chances. Not only is she laying in food, water, a woodstove and a greenhouse at home, but she's also become her town's volunteer Y2K coordinator, assembling a $1,000 emergency pantry in the community center--though, to her chagrin, almost none of her neighbors see the need to prepare. On the big night, she will have a party with 10 friends to watch TV...and wait: "Maybe we'll try out the photovoltaic stuff and use the Porta Potti...
Much to the chagrin of the world's leading paleontologists, there's a good reason why Leonardo DiCaprio and Goldie Hawn have face recognition and they don't. Dress a movie star up, spread a few rumors about them being cloned and all that's lost is some ink and a few pages of the National Enquirer. Do the same to a mammoth-cicle and 23,000 years of data may end up forever frozen in order to appease the desires of the masses...
...capitol of Pakistan, a variety of the characters' dispositions also change. The transformation of "Ice Candy Man" is the most dramatic, as he goes from being the reasonable peacemaker among the group to the most extreme example of religious hatred. Shanta falls in love with Hasan, much to the chagrin of the "Ice Candy Man", but their relationship appears almost inconsequential after the figurative and literal arrival of genocide in the form of a train filled with the bodies of Muslim men and children, along with gunnysacks filled with the severed breasts of Muslim women...
...seniors' chagrin, some events and images that shaped their childhoods are just history to first-years...