Word: dismay
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Only a Harvard grad could find "something wrong" with his school setting a league record for most championships won in one year. Only a Crimson alum could greet with dismay the news that during the 1982-83 school year, his team reached the final game of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) ice hockey championship...
...similar task force early last year under the direction of J. Peter Grace, 70, chairman of the conglomerate W.R. Grace & Co. Last week the group made public its final batch of findings. Its pointed revelations of wasteful practices were greeted within the Administration with much of the awkward dismay a doomsayer might feel upon being told his prophecies are true...
...most punishing recession since World War II. The depth and duration of the slump put a severe strain on Volcker's relations with the Reagan Administration, cool to begin with. The Chairman, a nominal Democrat and a 1979 Jimmy Carter appointee, made no secret of his dismay at Reagan's $200 billion deficits. Administration officials, led by Treasury Chief Regan, reciprocated by accusing Volcker of presiding over erratic swings in the money supply that alternately threatened to worsen the recession or rekindle inflation...
...proverb when recently given a copy of The Crimson 15 March 1983. I thought to make a belated response to the outcry of one Hieromonk Auxentios, a visitor at Harvard in the spring. Perhaps a few Crimson readers will remember the good Hieromonk's letter to the Editors, his dismay at the disrespect shown him and his abbot by certain students, presumably Harvard students, and how he indicted the entire University for intolerance and disregard for the ancient traditions of the Greek Orthodox Church. Now I am likewise a "traditionalist" Greek Orthodox monk, dressed in the manner of Hieromonk Auxentios...
After a very rainy spring, a bright, warm day finally appeared. I rushed poolside with a sugar-free soda, a salt-free snack and TIME. To my dismay, I started reading about the harmful effects of the sun [May 30]. One more pleasure in life that I will have to do without! On second thought, I decided just to give up reading...