Word: chagrined
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...about the students she spoke with was their complete lack of historical knowledge. She recounts her unsuccessful attempts to solicit the approximate dates of Louis XIV's reign from a large group of students, having a music major place Beethoven somewhere in the 16th century, and to her greatest chagrin, an almost universal ignorance of the major issues of the Spanish Civil War, an event of great importance to intellectuals of her generation. "Of course, now they'll all see Reds," she laments, "and they'll all know there was a Russian revolution, but they'll think it was made...
...rivalry intensified in the 1970s as an oil-industry boom lifted Houston to new peaks of wealth and power-and new acts of brazenness-while Dallas, long the more prosperous of the two cities, watched with chagrin. Today Dallas is on the rise again, but Houston is not exactly somnolent. In a move that has made Dallas aghast, a group of Houston boosters is offering college football's Southwest Conference $3 million in cash to lure the postseason Cotton Bowl game from Dallas, where it has been played for the past 45 years. "They have more chance of moving...
...Columbia offense stalled just two feet from six points. On third down the Harvard defensive line, with end Kevin McHugh leading the charge, rose up to crush Lion halfback Joe Cabrera for no gain. With fourth and one staring him down, Columbia head coach Bob Naso elected--the chagrin of both his players and their fans notwithstanding--to be certain of first blood with a safe 18-yd. field goal. Except that a Columbia field goal is about as safe as a late night walk through Spanish Harlem...
...counsel; the defiantly cheerful Gilles looks at life from a wheelchair, through a telescope lens. But there is untapped love in them both, and a desperate resolve. Louise places a personal notice in the local paper, asking to meet a "refined gentleman." To her shock and chagrin, the one respondent is Gilles. "My legs are paralyzed," he declares in his first letter, "but my heart is free and I know how to love." And so Louise determines to create another life, a love life, for her brother: she writes to him, as "Beatrice Deschamps," and Gilles becomes her maimed, ardent...
...faced as mayor: "It's unexplainable and it's frightening." In 1980 Los Angeles had a record 1,023 murders, in contrast with 490 when he took office. Bradley has doubled the police budget during his two terms, an increase largely consumed by inflation. To his chagrin, a plan to raise additional revenues through a special tax was defeated in a referendum last week...