Word: dismay
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...left the stockade, one of the 50-odd cheering onlookers remarked: "Now at least he's not a prisoner of war in his own country." Removing Calley from the stockade had an enormous symbolic effect, but it will not change his life all that notably. To his dismay, all beer and liquor were removed from his apartment. He has a permanent MP guard in the apartment. He may leave his home only under escort, to eat at an Army mess hall and to exercise for one hour daily. He may talk on the telephone or see only those friends...
...into the risky business, investing more than $700 million in the hope of big, though perhaps slow, profits. Few have become so extensively involved as Boise Cascade Corp., which has 29 recreation projects spread from Hawaii to New Hampshire. The company's chiefs, much to their surprise and dismay, have belatedly discovered that environmental zealots are increasingly able to stall or block even the well-planned development of unspoiled woods and shorelines...
...letter represents one of the few instances in which a Faculty group has publicly broached the issue of the war with Kissinger. Aside from one White House meeting last May at whicha group of critical senior Faculty members held an "on-the-record" meeting with him to express their dismay at the Cambodian invasion, other meetings and contacts have been mostly individual and always private...
...Taipei. After all, the former Vice President was well known as a vigorous antiCommunist, and Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek naturally expected him to continue Washington's longstanding policy of isolating the Red government on China's mainland. Of late, however, the warmth has turned to deep dismay over the Nixon Administration's increasingly friendly gestures toward the mainland government...
...After his team bounded jubilantly into the locker room. Coach Larry Costello locked the door until everyone had a chance to simmer down. Then he announced grandly: "Let the press in!" In they came-three reporters and a stray autograph hound. "No TV cameras, nothing!" Costello fairly shouted in dismay. "If the Knicks had set this record, the news would be in Tokyo already...