Word: chagrined
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Kennedy School of Government professor David Gergen is described as urging Clinton to disclose documents about the Whitewater real estate scandal—advice which the former president, to his eventual chagrin, decided against...
Much to their chagrin, the Crimson rowers proved unable to snap the inglorious streak on the seventh try, capping their 2004 campaign with a fifth-place showing on the Cooper River in Camden, N.J., where adverse weather conditions precluded a proper title defense...
That’s good news for an offensive line plagued by injuries, one which saw at least five players’ time limited by injury, much to the sidelined Frey’s chagrin...
...challenge the referee’s ruling, flanked closely by Ruggiero and McAuliffe, who insisted that they too had stopped battling only after hearing a whistle. After an extended official timeout was called for the referee to examine the replay, the goal was confirmed, much to the chagrin of Harvard’s skaters, who had remained on the ice during the entire stoppage of play...
...last week Khan, a hero to Pakistanis and many others in the Islamic world, came on the air, ashen and visibly shaken, to confess that he had sold Pakistan's nuclear secrets to Libya, Iran and North Korea. He begged for President Pervez Musharraf's pardon--and, to the chagrin of many Western intelligence agencies that regard Khan as the world's most dangerous nuclear proliferator, it was granted the next day. "He has made mistakes, but he is our hero," said Musharraf...