Word: dismay
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Probe. In a reply to Agnew, Richardson dutifully expressed his "dismay" at the unofficial reporting of the case and promised to bring in the FBI to probe it. However, he pointed out, it is not a crime for those with knowledge of an investigation to discuss it until the case is actually being heard by a grand jury-a stage that the inquiry into Agnew's affairs is not expected to reach until after Labor Day. Thus, said Richardson, in any case as explosive as the Vice President's, there may be "no fully effective means" of halting...
...real flood began after our April 30 cover story on Watergate. One of the 393 Watergate letters we received that week said: "As one who voted for Nixon in November, and looks back on it now with dismay, it is encouraging to see some public demand for the resolution of Watergate." But a number of readers still thought the press was exaggerating. Said one: "A few Republicans spy on a few Democrats and you write and preach and fume about it as if it were the worst scandal in history...
When World War II brought a new impetus to the economy, Houston again began its oil-powered boom, and tiny Bordersville was virtually forgotten. To the dismay of city officials, it was rediscovered just as the cement was drying on the runways of the new airport...
...Crimson sometimes has a box of news which it labels, "The Real World." Perhaps it is being sardonic. Yet the editors should learn some economics. For one day, to their dismay, they will wake up in "the real world" and then what will they say? Will Kistil...
Republican Governor Linwood Holton, 50, who by law cannot succeed himself, has been notably moderate on the issue of race (his own children attend desegregated public schools), much to the dismay of conservative Democrats who in 1969 helped make him the first Republican Governor in the commonwealth since Reconstruction. But this year those same conservative Democrats asked Holton to support as his replacement former Democratic Governor Mills E. Godwin Jr., 58, who defeated Holton in 1965 and is now at blistering odds with the McGovern leftists who have seized his former party. Holton agreed because there were no promising Republican...