Word: dismay
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...writing as lawyers and law teachers to express our dismay at the standards evidently governing the President's selection of nominees for the Supreme Court, as most recently reflected in the list of six potential nominees submitted to the American Bar Association screening committee...
...demonstration ended quietly at 1:30 p.m., much to the relief of the two vice-presidents, three assistants-to-the dean and five young-men-on-the-make who looked on in dismay from behind the reinforced windows of University Hall...
...Nabokov's fine phrase, a copulation of clichés. Not here. Garfield takes this insanely, inanely plotted movie and lends each scene a Rabelaisian gusto and surprise. His movements are reminiscent of the hippopotamus in rutting season; his expressions are unique. Who else could register such dismay when he finds that he has been making love to a corpse? Who else could transmit such concern for the girl who replaces her lover with a personal vibrator? Who else would want to? Garfield's reputation is secure; he is the first blue-movie comedian-a pantie hero funny...
...dismay of environmentalists, the Atomic Energy Commission insisted for years that its jurisdiction covered only the design and the radiation dangers of nuclear power plants. Then six weeks ago, a federal court ruled that the National Environmental Policy Act required the Commission to consider the effect of such plants on the entire environment. That decision, coupled with the AEC's discovery of flaws in the standard emergency cooling system used by U.S. nuclear plants, will delay the operation of ten nearly completed nukes (nuclear plants), 52 others under construction and 31 on the drawing boards. Last week...
...When her home town, Mobile, Ala., wanted to honor her, she put a price on her appearance and noted, "Checks preferred." But Yolande was also one of the most liberal and active winners. By the early 1960s she was working for the N.A.A.C.P., CORE and SANE. Much to the dismay of pageant managers, she was on the picket line at the first lunch-counter sit-ins in 1960. She denounced the events in Atlantic City as not only racist but also antifeminist. After her husband, Millionaire Matthew Fox, died in 1964, Yolande moved to Washington, D.C., where she fell...