Word: disbelief
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...read in disbelief the majority editorial of April 27, 1983, supporting the naming of the new Kennedy School fellowship after former Assistant Secretary of War John McCloy. By concluding that McCloy's accomplishments outweighed his "failings," the majority editorial failed to put proper weight on the latter: It seriously underestimated the gravity of McCloy's denial of requests to bomb Auschwitz, his key role in the removal and internment of the entire West Coast Japanese American population during World War II, and his present outspokenness against redressing the wrongs committed against the internees. McCloy's failings with respect...
...Disbelief edges closer to disdain. No models. Mannequins. Metal mannequins with plastic hips. And no heads! Unbelievable. Now try it again, slower...
...stunned disbelief of a nation. Throughout the parliamentary election campaign, Bruno Kreisky, 72, had made himself the central issue. He warned that he would "take his hat" and step aside if he failed to win an absolute majority. The move seemed astute, at least for a leader so unassailably popular that his Socialist Party's campaign slogan in 1975 had been "Kreisky- Who Else...
...quotes Physician Theo Morell as saying, in a representative entry from Oct. 30,1944, "The Führer confided in me that after this renewed attack of pain the trembling in his leg and hands was much more violent." Pulitzer-Prizewinning Historian John Toland concurred with Irving's disbelief. Said Toland: "Witnesses refer to 'Hitler's right hand, which is useless...
...Harvard. "They are always interested in how the University works. They ask, 'Where does Harvard get its money,' or 'How is Harvard run,' or if they are from a totalitarian country. 'How does the national government inform you what research to do?," 'Anderson explains, mixing bemusement with feigned disbelief...