Word: chagrining
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...choice, vouchers and gun safety. There is good sense in this strategy, since more contentious bills--like a sweeping anti-abortion bill on the part of the Republicans--have failed for their ambition. Of course, the people may not want good sense or politics-as-usual. To the lawmakers' chagrin, these narrower issues have not managed to excite the public...
Charles "Chuck" Truesdell'99 said he found Harvard overwhelming when he arrived. In addition to facing challenges in his academic and extracurricular life, Truesdell came out during the fall of his first year, much to the chagrin of his conservative family...
Much to the chagrin of some tradition-minded Brits, the Globe owes its existence to an American actor blacklisted during the McCarthy era. When Sam Wanamaker arrived in London in 1949, he was shocked to discover that the only acknowledgment of the original Globe was a plaque affixed to the front of a brewery. Wanamaker began a long and arduous campaign to build a modern equivalent. When he had finally squeezed enough cash from corporations and individual benefactors ($20.5 million), Wanamaker and his building team had to struggle to come up with the right design...
...campgrounds are in the wilderness, either. Las Vegas' Circus Circus casino has a campground, and Disney World has Fort Wilderness, where if visitors tire of Fantasyland, they can go canoeing and horseback riding. For some people this may be too much of a good thing. Much to the chagrin of folks like the Sutherlands, many campgrounds now have something they never had before: NO VACANCY signs...
...true that I grew up in Georgia, moved north one summer 30 years ago, and haven't lived anywhere south of Brooklyn since. A few years ago I did spend July in Atlanta, where I found to my ethnic chagrin that at temperatures over 90[degrees] I could no longer digest hush puppies. You might accuse me of having some kind of compensatory agenda, like an ex-communist swung drastically to the right...