Word: dismay
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dismay of West German and U.S. officials, the young wife's attitude is becoming commonplace. Weeks before the start of an expected "hot autumn" of major demonstrations against NATO's plan to begin deploying Pershing II and cruise missiles in Western Europe by December, tensions are rising between peace activists and the 249,000 U.S. troops based in the country. Only last week West German police dismantled a "peace camp" outside the Mutlangen depot...
After his election, Kolvenbach quoted to friends a passage from St. Teresa of Avila: "Let nothing bother you, let nothing dismay you." He did not finish the quotation: "Everything passes ... Patience gains all... God alone is enough." A fitting motto, perhaps, as the Society of Jesus enters...
Marcos kept a low profile during the days following Aquino's death. One of his main activities, however, was to act as host at a dinner, to the dismay of U.S. officials, for visiting Senator Mark Hatfield of Oregon, and to declare to his guest that "unfortunately you came at this dark hour, but I think we will get over it." Marcos reiterated his conviction that the only people who had gained from Aquino's assassination were "local Communists...
Since then, to Washington's dismay, the West German government has caused confusion in Western ranks by hinting that it is interested in the revival of a compromise plan that U.S. Negotiator Paul Nitze and his Soviet counterpart Yuli Kvitsinsky worked out during a stroll in the Jura Mountains above Geneva last summer. The walk-in-the-woods proposal, as it came to be called, was disavowed by Washington and Moscow. But West German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher seemed to resurrect it last month when he told a reporter during a visit to Bulgaria that "the closer...
...Israel. When Iraq invaded Iran, the Tehran regime urgently needed U.S. supplies. Former National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski confirmed in his recently published memoirs that the Carter Administration clandestinely offered to supply spare parts to Iran in return for the hostages' freedom. "We learned, much to our dismay," he wrote, "that the Israelis had been secretly supplying American spare parts to the Iranians, without much concern for the negative impact this was having on our leverage with the Iranians on the hostage issue...