Word: dismay
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While many Vietnamese were trying to find some way to leave their nation, President Thieu was insisting that he would stay-much to the dismay of a growing number of his countrymen. Last week the United Buddhist Church called on Thieu to resign. The An Quang Pagoda faction, representing the most outspoken element of the country's Buddhists, has long opposed the President. So have a number of leading Roman Catholics, members of the National Assembly, former Premier Nguyen Cao Ky and such advocates of the "third force" as General Duong Van ("Big") Minh...
...positions within the Kuomintang's hierarchy to Taiwanese. He has quietly shelved his father's quixotic crusade for retaking the mainland, insisting instead that the people of China will some day rise up and overthrow the Communists. Former President Nixon's 1972 journey to Peking produced dismay and anxiety on Taiwan. Since then, U.S.-Taiwan relations have stabilized; they are courteous, if not quite so close as before. For his part, Chiang Ching-kuo is relieved that Washington shows no present inclination to meet Peking's demand that the U.S. sever diplomatic ties with Taipei...
...their accelerating dismay over the state of the economy, Republicans could hardly be distinguished from Democrats, business executives from labor leaders. All were making much the same speech and the same plea to the President and Congress: do something and do it now. Testifying before the Joint Economic Committee, United Auto Workers President Leonard Woodcock warned of the "worst economic upheaval since the Great Depression. The auto industry is in a state of collapse." Addressing the same group, Henry Ford II agreed: "I have never before felt so uncertain and so troubled about the future of both my country...
Solzhenitsyn's description of his arrest and deportation adds some compelling new details to earlier accounts. After being charged with treason he was put in a cell with a pair of currency black-marketeers. Recognizing the author, one of the criminals expressed his dismay that Solzhenitsyn had not gone to Stockholm to collect his 70,000-ruble ($78,000) Nobel Prize in 1970. "You could have bought so many automobiles with that money!" Touched by the man's naive pity, Solzhenitsyn felt his first twinge of regret at having decided not to go to Sweden. Believing that...
...must, she brings with her a beautiful art student named Keiko. It is clear that Otoko still has deep feelings for Toshio. It is also clear that she and Keiko share a lesbian love. And before long it is obvious that Keiko has come to like very much the dismay she causes when she is capriciously cruel. She sets out, giggling, to seduce Toshio and to ruin his son. What is unsatisfactory about this is not that it rings false, but that it does not ring...