Word: dismay
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dismay and disbelief of civic-proud Los Angelenos, the Los Angeles Times reported that hordes of rats swarmed nightly over palm-fringed Pershing Square in the midst of downtown Los Angeles. The rats, said the Times, climbed down out of the trees to feed on popcorn and nuts forgotten by the pigeons in the daytime, drank from the fountain, scampered over discarded newspapers...
...Truman's surprise and dismay, Marshall flatly opposed it. The foreign ministers of the U.S., Britain and France had just finished eight weeks of fruitless talks with Stalin and Molotov. Marshall, at that very moment, was doing his best to reassure Britain's Bevin and France's Schuman of the consistency of U.S. diplomacy. The U.S., for example, had said it would not negotiate with Russia as long as she maintained the Berlin blockade. An announcement such as Mr. Truman planned would certainly shake British and French confidence in the U.S. The move would also look...
Theodore Olin Thackrey used to be managing editor of the New York Post. Then he married his boss, Dorothy Schiff Backer, and became the co-publisher and co-editor. A fortnight ago, Co-Editor Thackrey dashed off "An Appeal to Reason," complaining of his irritation and dismay "at the intemperate and increasingly violent reaction to Henry Wallace's campaign...
...authorities watch the incoming flood of misery with a feeling of helpless dismay. The refugees cannot be housed or adequately fed. They add to the misery, starvation and chaos of Nationalist China. In the North, the Reds still tighten the screws, drive more millions on to the bitter roads of China...
...howl of dismay was only one in the millions that made up the screaming wake of China's jet-propelled inflation last week. In two days, while Chiang Kai-shek was desperately trying to bolster the morale of his dispirited armies in Central China, the value of China's currency on Shanghai's black market dropped by half. In Shanghai a wet-nurse unable to find food for her family went on strike, demanding 100 lbs. of rice from her employer. Her nursling's harassed father at last scraped together the necessary $16 million...