Word: dismay
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Watching Lt. Col. North testify in Congress this week, one is struck by the extent to which our foreign policy has been conducted without the consent or knowledge of the American people for the past few years. But the shock turns to dismay when one realize that Harvard runs itself in much the same way. Administrators run the school and students watch, not knowing what they do and, in many cases, not caring anyway...
...fact, remembering broken-down prodigies like Tracy Austin and Andrea Jaeger, her father has required her to rest every year from late November to mid-January, and to the dismay of tournament promoters, has kept her schedule reasonable. "Sometimes I have to be Mr. Graf," he says. "It's no fun." But the results have been as sweet as hot raspberries. "She is a champion from within. All from within," he says. "But her extra advantage may be the circle around her -- her mother and brother too." (A practice partner, Czech Pro Pavel Slozil, takes care to coach in whispers...
...addition, Congress expressed dismay over Saudi Arabia's failure to intercept the Iraqi jet after an AWACS radar plane operated jointly by Saudis and Americans spotted it. Displeasure over the incident was so great that the Reagan Administration last week delayed submitting a proposal to sell new F-15 fighter jets to the Saudis. Remarked Byrd with considerable understatement: "I think it would have a tough ride right...
...Woodstock of physics." Indeed, at times it resembled a rock concert more than a scientific conference. Three thousand physicists tried to jam themselves into less than half that number of seats set up in the ballroom; the rest either watched from outside on television monitors or, to the dismay of the local fire marshal, crowded the aisles. For nearly eight hours, until after 3 a.m., the assembled scientists listened intently to one five-minute presentation after another, often cheering the speakers enthusiastically. Many lingered until dawn, eagerly discussing what they had heard and seen...
...throughout the novel; it is a tool of political intrigue, a commodity exchanged between men and women, and a road to happiness. Politics rears its somewhat ugly head in each woman's life--complete with bizarre schemes and dangerous, extremely good-looking spies--usually to the woman's utter dismay. And the otherworldly is present in large measure; the dead return to life, women develop into telepaths, angels fall from heaven...