Word: chagrined
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...That impressive medical chart was apparently enough to convince the three-judge panel to vote 2-1 to suspend legal action against the former dictator, much to the chagrin of prosecutors. Pinochet was to be tried for his role in covering up 57 murders and 18 disappearances during the so-called "caravan of death" after his 1973 military coup...
...years later (and much to my family's chagrin at first), I married an artist from the Dominican Republic. In 1996 my son was born. Raul Ariel Jesus de Todos los Santos Perez-Hinojosa, we joked, would be the first Domini-Mex New Yorker. My boy is now 5 years old, and my daughter Maria Yurema Guadalupe de los Indios Perez-Hinojosa just turned 3 this past Cinco de Mayo (and, no, it wasn't a scheduled C-section...
...followed by cocktail parties where the networks pimp out their celebs to mingle among laundry-detergent marketing directors and managers of affiliate stations, earning goodwill among semi-bigwigs who get to go home to Lacrosse or Abilene with a picture of themselves next to an artfully-concealing-her-chagrin Heather Locklear...
...plot an energy future that is less reliant on foreign oil and less vulnerable to natural-gas price spikes and shortages. "If these were easy issues, the Clinton Administration would have taken care of them," Vice President Cheney told TIME. His group meets in secret - much to the chagrin of Democrats, who were attacked by the opposition when Hillary Clinton's infamous health-care task force operated behind closed doors. Hillary tried in vain to sort the winners from the losers in health care. In the Fossil Fuel Club, everyone's a winner...
...checkpoint as he was about to board a plane to Las Vegas. Inside his carryon: "illicit mushrooms," according to officials, and not the kind you'd serve at a state dinner. Upon being searched, Sorkin fainted briefly; he was later released on $10,000 bond. To add to the chagrin of one of the most critically acclaimed men in Hollywood, just two months ago he'd been given an award for overcoming drug abuse and encouraging other addicts to do the same. Can Sorkin write his way out of this...