Word: chagrined
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...which the title character obtains an alligator—and would not relent until his parents agreed to meet their family friend, the director of the St. Louis Zoo, to discuss the prospect of housing two caimans in the family basement. Much to his parents’ chagrin, the zoo director thought housing the small crocodiles was a wonderful idea: the director’s reptilian childhood pets had piqued his own interest in zoology.Losos’ adored his caimans, according to his father, and joined the St. Louis Herpetology society...
...Short, and solidly built, clad in a black leather jacket, with an arm in a sling from a snowboarding accident, he ticks off for me the media outlets that the Tenenbaum team has reached: pretty much everything but the New York Times, it seems, much to his wry chagrin. At this point, Joel has participated in public panel discussions about his case. He’s had the opportunity to engage in meandering philosophical conversations with one of the nation’s foremost legal minds (“What do you think it means to know something...
...Several countries have canceled all flights to and from Mexico, and some airlines are cutting way back on flights to the country. If it does indeed turn out that H1N1 is just the normal flu by another name, we may look back on last week's rapid response with chagrin - and be that much less responsive the next time a pandemic knocks on the world's door. (Read "Swine Flu: Don't Blame...
...possibility of layoffs among House staff has caused Masters to react with both “astonishment and chagrin,” said one House Master, who wished to remain unnamed, in an interview with The Crimson on Tuesday...
...escalated, whipped up by resurgent Arab secular nationalism. At the federal level, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has repeatedly said he wants to strengthen Baghdad's hand at the expense of Iraq's 18 provinces, including Kurdistan - the semiautonomous three-province Kurdish region in the north - much to the chagrin of the federalist-minded Kurds. At the provincial level, newly empowered hard-line Sunni groups like al-Hadba in Mosul, Nineveh's capital, are preparing to expand their political clout. (See a TIME photographer's diary of the Iraq conflict...