Word: dismay
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...attack." Says Videla: "What is Argentina to do? Does it defend itself or does it let its way of life be changed? I reply: Argentina must defend itself against this aggression." President Carter's decision in February to cut U.S. arms aid was received with angry dismay. "Carter does not understand us," said one officer. "He is playing into the hands of the terrorists, not helping the forces of democracy...
...their forms filled out. H&R Block, Inc., the nation's largest such service, expects a big increase in business this year over last. The U.S. Tax Court will also be kept busy for years interpreting the 1976 law's provisions. Here, for dismay or delight, are some of the major changes, beginning with those likely to affect the most people...
Crows and bluejays have attacked the owl every morning since it arrived on Thursday, much to the dismay of residents in Lowell House...
...more exciting the secret in Israel, the faster it is leaked, as Henry Kissinger learned to his dismay and anger more than once in the course of his sessions with high-level Israeli leaders. Thus last week, even before the vote was formally announced at the most important Labor Party convention in the country's history, the outcome was already being whispered among close to 3,000 party delegates packed into Tel Aviv's Mann Auditorium. Entering the hall to take his place among them and hear the announcement, Premier Yitzhak Rabin, 55, was greeted with knowing cries...
...firms holding the leases expressed dismay. Shell Oil charged that the delay "further jeopardizes the economic security of the nation." What happens next is unclear. The Interior Department can either appeal the ruling, possibly rewrite the impact statement, or call the deal off and return the money to the companies. Whatever it does, last week's decision is certain to delay production in the Atlantic for at least several years...