Word: dismay
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard Medical School professor's work is largely a survey course in, yes, sexually transmitted diseases. Zinner starts with the premise that the 60s were the years of sexual revolution and that the 80s "reflect postrevolutionary confusion, dismay, and uncertainty," a sort of sexual reconstruction...
...enormous void of his hours, Copito de Nieve never abandons the tire...From it he can have a glimpse of what for man is the search for an escape from the dismay of living--investing oneself in things, recognizing oneself in signs, transforming the world into a collection of symbols--a first daybreak of culture in the long biological night...
...countless consumers have found to their dismay, the towering interest that banks charge for credit-card purchases can defy both gravity and the laws of economics. While the prime rate for corporate customers has plunged from 20 1/ 2% to 9 1/2% since 1981 and the average new mortgage rate has dropped from 17.7% to 11.6% during that time, credit-card interest in most areas has remained at a sky-high level of more than 18% annually. That is a rate once associated with local loan sharks rather than with your friendly neighborhood banker...
...LAST WEEK the administration, to the dismay of virtually every Harvard undergraduate, made the houses and the Yard dry. And the council, supposedly the students' voice, was too busy arguing about election procedures to speak up about the new drinking policy...
...unlike most house committee chairs who have expressed dismay at the new policy, the student managers of Cookin' say that they hope the lack of beer will keep away those students who came merely to drink...