Word: dismay
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Thomas Jr., the pastor of the First United Methodist Church of Tulsa and the new agency's chairman, gives a key reason for the widening dismay: the election last October of Peggy Billings, 55, to run the mission board's overseas division. She is, Thomas declares, "the most radical person" on the staff...
...nonsense Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher stopped by The Hague not long ago to call on her Dutch counterpart, Ruud Lubbers. As conversation turned to their mutual attempts to impose economic austerity, the Dutch Christian Democratic leader outlined his bold program of budgetary cutbacks. Thatcher reacted with feigned dismay. "Mr. Lubbers, are you really intending to cut the salaries of your public employees by more than 3%?" she demanded. "That's a disaster. I am supposed to be the toughest in Europe. You are going to ruin my reputation as the Iron Lady...
...reaction of U.S. educators to this flurry of concern has been largely one of dismay. They accuse the Administration of overstating the problem. "The President is painting schools with a broad stroke, conjuring up what they were ten years ago," says Mary Futrell, president of the 1.7 million-member National Education Association. "The schools are no longer drug dens and battlegrounds...
...read with dismay the comment by Barbara Walters. She says, "The news media in general are liberal. If you want to be a reporter, you are going to see poverty and misery, and you have to be involved in the human condition." Walters' premise is that only a liberal cares about those in dire straits or has the answer to the problem. How untrue. How unfair. How naive. How typical...
...more interested in the number of Roman Catholic votes they might gain in 1984. It is known that the White House has sounded out pockets of potential Protestant opposition and found only minimal political damage. However, several organizations, including the National Council of Churches, have expressed their dismay. "I'm appalled," says President James Draper of the Southern Baptist Convention, the nation's largest Protestant group. More adverse publicity for the Administration could be generated by Senate confirmation of the first Ambassador to the Vatican. He is likely to be Reagan's current personal representative, William Wilson...