Word: dismay
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Both the size and the composition of the crowd that turned out in Buenos Aires' Plaza de Independencia to cheer Citizen Perón's first public campaign speech struck dismay into good Argentine democrats. The Perón followers (estimated at 200,000) were almost as impressive in numbers as the Democratic Unionists who had gathered the week before to shout Perón down. Milling about with the usual Perón nationalists and bullyboys were thousands of well-dressed, middle-class voters. Perón's attempt to split off a sector of Argentina...
Pictures featuring Eddie Brakcen are always anticipated with a vague premonition of dismay. They are attended with little comfort, and leave a feeling of general despair afterwards. In view of this, why does anybody ever go to pictures featuring Eddie Bracken...
...Road? The plain citizen watched these and other uproars on the labor scene with helpless anger and dismay. Was this the road to reconversion, 60,000,000 jobs and all the other fine promises of peace...
...Argonauts boldly pushed on through the dangerous Hellespont and entered the Black Sea. To their dismay, Hercules deserted, was later summoned home to perform another of his mighty labors. "Holy Serpents!" he growled. "Tell me what [it is] this time?" The job-cleaning the Augean Stables-didn't take Hercules long. Afterwards, he stayed around with the high priestess of Lydia-who in due time bore male triplets. In gratitude, the priestess taught Hercules how to spin, and tied up his hair in blue braids; he was crazy about it, and admitted confidentially that he had always wanted...
...Businessmen are not looking upon the decline in war work with fear or dismay but . . . with relief. Readjustment must come . . . and the sooner the better. A tendency to view the reconversion prospect with greater optimism is in evidence...