Word: dismay
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Three times he was put away in Sing Sing, to the widespread dismay of widows & orphans. But the clippings faded yellow and crumbly in newspaper morgues; the detectives who arrested him and the judges who sentenced him faded and crumbled too. In Brooklyn's once-tough, now tame Red Hook district, Steve Dutton has recently lived in a frame house with his two dogs, three cats (two of them 22 years old), and a 21 -ft. snake, preserved in formaldehyde, which he said he caught in Florida...
John Lewis had done more than most men to vest new powers in the Presidency; he now denounced a President who would cling to those powers ("Personal craving for power, the overweening, abnormal and selfish craving for increased power is a thing to alarm and dismay"). A genuine isolationist, he spoke from the heart on the issue most likely to do Campaigner Roosevelt immediate harm ("His motivation and his objective...
...efficiency." Dale took perverse pleasure in shocking his associates by singing the Horst Wessel song and Deutschland Uber Alles. When pink-cheeked Faculty Adviser James Hawkes became perturbed and tried to squelch his Nazi talk, Dale conceived a cordial dislike for Instructor Hawkes, became still more defiant. To the dismay of his roommate, Dale installed a bust of Hitler on his desk...
...behind them lay the dramatic beginning of the Willkie campaign- the first talks to the silent, enigmatic workmen in the Chicago stockyards, the tension and half-exasperated dismay as Wendell Willkie lost his voice in his first overaggressive campaigning, the doleful predictions that the campaign would be the greatest story in U. S. political history by being its greatest flop. Behind them, too, lay the astonishing crowds. Ahead of them lay the trip over the mountains in flawless Western weather. And ahead of them lay the last weeks in which the issues of the campaign, despite candidates, crowds, arguments, would...
...last week, the Emergency Committee in Aid of Displaced Foreign Scholars had brought almost 200 eminent men to the U. S. On its waiting list were 3,800 more. To its dismay, many a U. S. pedagogue grumbled that the U. S. had reached the saturation point for foreign scholars. Hit by declining incomes, colleges said that they faced a choice of hiring foreigners or native U. S. scholars...