Word: dismay
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Noted with dismay among the vagaries of the hurricane was its indiscriminate will in tearing down Harvard's shade trees but leaving the owl-eyed shack on Bow and Mt. Auburn without a scratch...
...Damnation." The juries' verdicts are often a source of astonishment and dismay to 305-lb. George Bradford Simpson, divorced, the ex-soap-opera "doctor" and free-lance writer who thought up, oversees and half-owns the show. His score on guessing the decisions is close to zero. One decision which bothered him occurred in the case of a wife whose husband admitted that he loved another woman but wanted her to stay on while he pursued his new affair. She asked the jury what to do. They voted unanimously in favor of her staying...
...Item: the President's encouragement of the Zionists-to the dismay not only of Britain but of seven Arab states. The M.P.s failed to note that the President's actions last week were quite different from his talk...
Last week Willkieites were frankly dismayed by the strong Dewey sentiment among the committeemen at Chicago. Their dismay crystallized plans for an immediate Willkie campaign of action. Trusting as always in an appeal from G.O.P. professionals to the rank & file, Candidate Willkie will shortly set off on a nationwide speaking tour, declare himself strongly on domestic issues...
...Navy wife wrote: "My husband . . . wants a child. I do not. ... I don't want to drag around alone during those miserable nine months. . . . Am I just a selfish female?" Mary called the writer "harebrained," said: "My immediate reaction . . . is a blend of nausea and dismay...