Word: dismay
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...captain of a Navy salvage vessel in the Pacific is overheard offering to "sell" women crew members to Koreans.At the huge U.S. naval base at Subic Bay in the Philippines, local go-go girls strip in the sailors' clubs while prostitutes circulate among the tables, much to the dismay of U.S. servicewomen seeking relaxed meals outside the mess halls. In the adjacent bar-studded town of Olongapo, women on liberty from the Navy and Marines are "grabbed on the streets by the military men, treating them as though they were free game...
...Administration, which has reduced the Federal Government's share of all educational outlays, is getting set to propose an increase. But the G.O.P. adds a qualification stressed early by Vice President George Bush: more dollars do not necessarily mean better schools. Indeed, Bennett insists that one source of popular dismay is precisely the belief that the public is not getting its money's worth out of the cash already being showered on schools -- a record $308 billion this year in federal, state, local and private spending. To improve teaching, G.O.P. candidates favor a free-market approach: tuition tax credits and/or...
...Dismay and anger were the reactions of American Jews last June when Pope John Paul II welcomed Kurt Waldheim at the Vatican, despite accusations that the Austrian President had been involved in Nazi war crimes. The resulting controversy threatened to sour John Paul's nine-city trip to the U.S., which begins on Sept. 10. Jewish leaders in Los Angeles announced that they might boycott the Pope's scheduled interfaith celebrations. A more important Miami meeting between John Paul and American-Jewish leaders, intended to enhance relations, seemed doomed...
...have watched the elevation of Oliver North to sainthood with a mixture of dismay and disgust. If a week of self-righteous testimony is all that is necessary to make an American folk hero, then this country is in trouble...
...articles on (gasp!) official corruption and incompetence. Once banned abstract paintings hang at an outdoor Sunday art fair. In public parks and private living rooms, families plan futures that many believe will be better, richer, freer than ever before. To the delight of many Soviet citizens -- and the dismay of others -- their country is in the midst of its most dramatic transformation since the days of Stalin...