Word: chagrinned
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...chagrin of University officials and the glee of many Canaday Hall residents, a 100-pound piece of the Memorial Church bell broke off last Friday, temporarily ending the church's ritual ringing and nearly crashing through its roof...
...variety of fantastic items-knee-length plaid shorts, funky Hawaiian shirts and even a pair of plastic earrings shaped like orange clownfish. My sister, then an ultra fashion-conscious cheerleader, tried and failed to make me hide in the closet when her friends came over. (Much to my chagrin, she could hide the clownfish in there.) In the southern Texas fashion world of bright colors, tons of makeup, big hair and layers of jewelry, I knew I couldn't-and didn't want to-fit in. After all I mused, I'd soon be leaving for Harvard. People there world...
...baby-sit for her five-year-old niece, often until 10 p.m. Only then does she begin to think about hitting the books. "I have too many other responsibilities, and I can't focus on my homework," says Bodley. And when she can't focus? Without a note of chagrin, she admits, "I just...
...graduate board of the A.D. final club announced Wednesday night--to the chagrin of some of its members--that the club's doors were being closed to non-members...
...upbeat about the effort to defend South Vietnam against communism: "The presence of the Americans symbolized one of the main reasons why South Viet Nam, five years ago a new nation with little life expectancy, is still independent and free and getting stronger all the time--to the growing chagrin of Communists in neighboring North Viet Nam." The two Americans who died in the ambush were the first of some 58,000 to die before the hurried American evacuation of Saigon 16 years later...