Word: dismay
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...like and Tina Turner concert in the Stadium, State police swarmed around the gates and mounted police occupied every corner. As soon as Tina Turner finished her set, she was escorted to her trailer by a phalanx of blue-helmeted troopers. The crowd howled in dismay. Purse-snatching and muggings increased...
...like a group of boys starting out on an adventure at the beginning of a vacation," one notes. Every day he sets off down the Mississippi with Tom, Huck and Jim. In this world the cardinal sin is to betray a friend. About the only time Plimpton displays real dismay is when he talks of a fellow writer who revealed a confidence in print: "I think that's just awful, reprehensible...
Midwestern farmers ordinarily welcome summer rains because they hasten the ripening of lucrative crops. This season's rainfall has been unusually heavy, accompanied by high humidity and winds from the hurricane-laden skies of the South. Last week farmers discovered to their dismay that the combination threatened calamity to the cornbelt states of Illinois, Indiana and Iowa, endangering the nation's biggest cash crop...
...doubt such incidents are relatively rare in the current climate of adult dismay over youth's excesses and eccentricities. And yet fathers who have been influenced by their children?and have influenced them?can be found at almost every level of U.S. life. At times this may suggest confusion on the part of parents who are, above all else, eager to keep their families together. More often, perhaps, it suggests the kind of strength that is required to change one's mind. Some examples...
...activist wife Janet, a New Englander who serves on the Texas Civil Rights Commission, have gone on to espouse locally unpopular causes like pollution control for oil companies. "That paper is the Pravda of South Texas," snorts one conservative lawyer. Harte has even recovered from his initial dismay at discovering that Chris played a major role in persuading Stanford to create a coed dormitory. "The kids were more orderly and serious about their studies, so I've changed my mind." Even so, Harte is still cool about some of Chris's other passions, such as the film Easy Rider...