Word: disappoint
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Ehrengard will disappoint only those Dinesen admirers who hoped it would be a long-awaited Italian novel which, the author once tantalizingly explained, she did not want to complete until just before her death "because people will say it is too fantastic...
...kneecap, his leg. Pitching against the Yankees in the 1936 opener in Washington, a third-inning wild throw from third base to first fractured his jaw. Bobo picked himself up and went on with the game. "When President Roosevelt comes to see Bobo pitch. Bobo ain't gonna disappoint him." he declaimed -and shut out the Bombers...
...Houphouet-Boigny and Mme. Ernest Boka, wife of the Ivory Coast Supreme Court Chief Justice, he regaled both women in his Boston-accented French. He even inquired about the designer of Mme. Houphouet-Boigny's dress; informed that it was by Balmain, Kennedy observed that this would disappoint Dior...
...Current is a handsomely designed magazine published four times a year by the Harvard-Radcliffe Catholic Club. Although describing itself as "A Review of Catholicism and Contemporary Culture," Current will disappoint those who search its pages for articles and stories of Catholic concern. In its first issue this year, Janus-faced Current focuses its attention mainly on secular affairs...
...mean to God. And hu mans need the love that is agape, not eros-"concerned not merely with what the other means to us but with what we, in our lives, may mean to the other, whether he has joy in us, or sorrow, whether we serve him or disappoint...