Word: disbelief
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Amid all the angry disbelief, Egyptian officials had good reason to downplay the suicide theory. It invites speculation that fundamentalist terror groups may have penetrated the state airline. If FBI agents were to conduct interviews on Egyptian soil, it could arouse anti-American nationalists. The idea that a crazed pilot deliberately crashed an EgyptAir plane could wound the country's important tourist industry just as it is recovering from a terrorist massacre that killed 62 two years...
...thousand men (and women) of Harvard watched in disbelief as the sons of Eli stole victory at The Game last weekend. Our Crimson contingent battled nobly, but in the end it was not valor nor skill, but ill fortune that decided the outcome. For once, Fate must have smiled on Yale, for a last-minute endzone "catch" gave the Bulldogs a 24-21 victory and a share of the Ivy League title...
...writing to object to Dr. Ian Smith's article "Cell-Phone Scare," reacting to ABC News's 20/20 report [PERSONAL TIME: YOUR HEALTH, Nov. 1]. Those of us who spent four months investigating the safety of cell phones read Smith's column with disbelief. How could the description of our report be so inaccurate? We questioned whether Smith had even seen our two-part, 24-min. broadcast. He wrote that he was "startled by the possibility that ABC could have uncovered a smoking gun in a medical controversy that has been simmering unresolved for years." But we specifically reported, "There...
Their frustration grew as the scoring didn't come, and as time wound down in the second half you could sense the panic and disbelief begin to set in. And as the clock reached :00, shock would be the only thing to describe the look of the team...
...miss this all summer?" a man exclaims in disbelief, ordering half a rack from Welch. His passengers are displeased to find the store closed, but as long as he has his Formaggio Kitchen ribs, he's happy...