Word: chagrinned
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...Mexico with Pershing's Punitive Expedition, he played his guitar, collaborated on a composition called the Punitive Rag, and when World War I came along sailed for France. There to his chagrin he was assigned to a pilot-training job at Issoudun...
...nudes." Equally famous as a lover in circa 1900 Vienna, he has much trouble leaving one woman, protecting the reputation of a second, and winning the hand of a third. His "love of convenience" with the latter, an unsophisticated girl, turns into the real thing, to the chagrin of his ex-pash. She schemes to break up the affair, and finding that be still won't come back to her, finally plugs him with a small roscoe, containing two cigarettes and one bullet. Things finally get straightened out, and love triumphs. It's hard to say exactly how old this...
...singer any more, so this can't hurt me, but even the strongest imagination totters at the vision of mixed rage, chagrin, bewilderment and utter frustration in the minds and hearts of countless young singers in this nation as they become aware of your iconoclastic attitude on the subject. Indeed, society as we know it may crumble completely...
...Where Tokyo broadcasts forced the Army to admit, after six months, that the Japs had captured four flyers of Brigadier General Doolittle's raiders, the War Department defended the delay in the name of military security. But the national reaction was nevertheless one of chagrin at having been played for suckers. Newsmen had to keep silent while London originated the first story that U.S. troops had landed in Liberia, that U.S. tank crews were operating in Egypt, that Mrs. Roosevelt was going to Britain...
Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels used to intimidate foreign statesmen by showing them movies of the Polish blitz and of the fall of France. Since those outdated smash hits, he has had no wows to offer. Recently he had to suffer the chagrin of going to the Japanese Embassy to see their supercolossal Nippon's Wild Eagle, showing the attack on Pearl Harbor, the conquest of the Philippines, Malaya, Borneo...