Word: chagrinned
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...Spain's chagrin, the British have possessed the Mediterranean fortress since 1704, when British Admiral Sir George Rooke seized the 2.25-sq.-mi. peninsula during the War of Spanish Succession. Gibraltar's residents (now 31,183) have rebuffed repeated Spanish attempts to reclaim the territory. In 1969, Spanish Dictator General Francisco Franco cut land, sea and telephone links with the colony. His intention: literally to starve Gibraltar's inhabitants into agreeing to a reunion with Spain. But the Gibraltarians, determined to remain under British rule, turned to nearby Morocco for supplies...
...school of its recreational notoriety. Dartmouth certainly has a lot of signs prohibiting alcohol consumption in its stadium. But the clever Harvard fans managed to circumvent them, much to the chagrin of 1930's representatives...
...bureaucratic pique. American ambassadors in Moscow had been kept in sterile isolation, and the Soviet desk of the department initiated the decision to take away Dobrynin's parking privileges as a means of getting the Soviets' attention. When Dobrynin entered my office, he managed to conceal any chagrin he may have felt as a result of being treated as an ordinary mortal...
...marriage with a slimy hustler named Costa (Jean-Pierre Bacri). By 1952, when most of Entre Nous takes place, each woman is eager to escape the emotional claustrophobia of cooking the meals, chaperoning the children, counterfeiting passion as Monsieur Wrong rolls toward her in bed. To the anger and chagrin of their husbands, Lena and Madeleine find that ecstatic escape in each other's souls...
Keynesian economics, first articulated in the late 1930s, also earned its intellectual stamp of approval in Harvard seminar rooms. Forty-five years ago, a clique of young intellectuals, somewhat to the chagrin of the economics department, became the first Americans to teach the radical new subject. Within a decade many of the same men found themselves in heavy demand, as Washington espoused a then-unheard of degree of government intervention in the economy...