Word: chagrined
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That tariff worked directly against Cuban cane but, much to the chagrin of the sugar beet people, it also benefited Hawaii and Puerto Rico and, after 1913, the Philippines. After the War more and more of U. S. sugar came from the U. S. and its island possessions, less and less came from Cuba. Cuba, who could not sell her products elsewhere, got into much the same sort of trouble as U. S. wheat and cotton producers who lost their foreign markets. To make matters more comfortable for the beet sugar industry the tariff on Cuban sugar was raised...
...student can get an exact return on the time he gives it, whereas no matter how much time he is given to most courses, there is a limit to what they have to offer. For the student who is interested in his field it is a source of chagrin that at present the work he does for his tutor should pass unnoticed, and it is unfair that the impecunious should be forced to forego much of this interesting work for the sake of marks which may mean little. There is everything to be said for a plan which will make...
...neither of them had enough money, John snapped his fingers at prudence and married her. A character in her own right, who long survived her conqueror husband, Sarah was a devoted wife but no doormat. Once she took the annoying last word by cutting off her hair; to her chagrin John apparently never noticed it. but later she discovered her shorn locks laid away with his carefully guarded treasures...
...indifference does not stem from the idea that it will all turn out for the worst anyway, but because we are bewildered by the election itself. Imagine our chagrin yesterday afternoon, when, crossing the square towards Lehman Hall, we were nearly decapitated by the speeding lorry of one of the merry mayor-making factions. We were deafened by the sound-effects which oozed from all over the wagon, playing some Jazz ditty on the honest Mayor Russell. But we were flabbergasted to read this timely inscription on its side, as we scurried out from under it: "Vote for Mayor Russell...
...taps" (typewrites) methodically from 10 a. m. until one, rewriting everything at least three times to concentrate and sharpen the effervescent prolixity of his style. Like most humorists he folds inward in public but is seldom without a rejoinder when pressed. An infirmity kept him, to his deep chagrin, from active service in the War. When queried about it rather nastily once he swallowed his anger and coolly replied: "I'm awfully busy just now, but I think I can manage to give them a week or two in June...