Word: dismay
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Palooka best the Nazis? In Venezuela such questions called urgently for an answer. But the ships from New York were slow in coming, and many a Venezuelan newspaper was running short of comic-strip mats. While the comic-strip heroes teetered on various brinks, Venezuelan editors heard with dismay that a ship with a supply of mats had been sent to the bottom by a pigboat...
...Justice Department, which nothing should dismay, never batted an eye as it asked a Grand Jury to charge three white men, citizens of the U.S., with working for the Japs...
Like Professor Potts, Scriptwriters Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder took time out for research. Among the oddities they unearthed was one"Muggsy" Meyers, race-track tout, who refers to himself as a "ducat hustler." From Muggsy and associated sources, the scripters found to their dismay that in 1941's "jellybean jargon" a country boy was no longer a yokel, but a "loose tooth"; a dollar, no longer a buck, had become a "banger"; "cooking with gas" meant perfect understanding...
Britons of both sexes who rely on Christmas for an extra supply of cigarets were in dismay last week. Britain's Tobacco Controller A. H. Maxwell urged that tobacco and cigarets not be presented as Christmas gifts. Reason: Last year's Christmas rush caused a shortage in supplies from which Britain has not yet recovered...
...Steinbeck had planned it. His first choice for composer was Mexico's famed Silvestre Revueltas, a man of Balzacian corpulence, Bohemian courses, and a gift for orchestration. At the climax of their negotiations the hard-drinking Revueltas-to Steinbeck's and Mexico's dismay -died at the unripe age of 40 years...