Word: dismay
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dealing Chester Bowles got himself elected governor of Connecticut while restless Bill Benton was still looking for something new to keep him busy. Last week, news leaked from the governor's office in Hartford that Bill Benton, now 49, had finally found it. To the ill-concealed dismay of Connecticut's regular Democrats, his old friend and partner Chester Bowles had decided on Benton, an independent and member of no political party, to succeed Republican Raymond E. Baldwin, who leaves the U.S. Senate this month for a seat on the Connecticut supreme court. Unless the regulars could stop...
...Europe's harvest was almost in. In the rolling green hills of northern Bavaria, tanned, pipe-smoking farmers loaded the last of the rutabagas onto their creaking, unpainted wooden carts. Parisian housewives clucked approvingly at stalls piled high with vegetables, meat, butter and cheese (although they gaped in dismay at the high prices). In Rome last week, delegates to a regional conference of the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization met to assess the food situation in eleven European nations. After six days, they emerged with cheerful news: Europe's food crisis was over...
...delegates recessed, a buzz of dismay filled the halls. Most disquieting was the shadow that had fallen over the supposedly generous Occupation Statute. Was the new German government going to be only a puppet, as the Reds charged...
When the Sept. 1 issue of Vogue (circ. 345,358) went on sale last week, Editor Carmel Snow of the rival Harper's Bazaar (circ. 321,325) gasped in dismay. Leading off the magazine was a 17-page view of the new Paris fashions. It was a big beat, with photographs and sketches of dresses by such big names as Dior, Fath and Paquin. What horrified Editor Snow was not the new geometric look, but the fact that it was in Vogue at all. Harper's Bazaar had not carried the pictures; it had understood that...
...great thinker; he was a man of stout prejudices, with a gift and vocabulary for iconoclastic expression even richer than Mark Twain's. In the word's true sense he was, like Thoreau, a radical. But he was also a political conservative, to the dismay of the assorted pinks and reds who once thrilled to his lambastings of Harding, Coolidge and Hoover, but were forced to turn on him when he struck out at the New Deal, socialism and communism...