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...identify him." Twice now they have identified him as Andy North. At Oakland Hills outside Detroit, North won again this year, the same way he did seven fitful and winless summers ago at Cherry Hills near Denver, with a bogey on the last hole and an expression of chagrin...
Until the nineteenth century, when the Fourth of July caught on as a holiday, Commencement was the seasonal excuse for feasts and New England-style bacchanalia, much to the chagrin of past Harvard President Increase Mather...
Weinberger did not hide his chagrin. "Nobody wanted to make these cuts," he said. "The President didn't, and I certainly didn't." Though the Pentagon does not yet know what it will do without, the vote seems sure to slow the U.S. military buildup that was one of Reagan's proudest accomplishments throughout his first term...
Nkomo was nowhere to be found. Having heard in advance of the government action, he had left Bulawayo to drive to Harare, 250 miles away. At a press conference he denounced "the siege of Bulawayo" and accused the government of pursuing a deliberate policy of intimidation. To his chagrin, Nkomo discovered on his return to Bulawayo that during the crackdown, government forces had confiscated his bulletproof Mercedes-Benz sedan...
...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...