Word: dismay
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Cardenal left Nicaragua in the spring of 1980 to lecture in this country against the Sandinistas and organize a coherent opposition. He speaks with dismay about the country he left behind, "controlled in effect by Cuban advisors, lacking the basic freedom of the press, and without the prospect of open elections for the future...
...largest contributor to the organization, Brandt has used his party's bureaucracy and his personal prestige to expand the movement's influence in the Third World. He has got 16 leftist movements and parties, including those of Guatemala, Venezuela and Costa Rica, to join. But, to the dismay of some of his colleagues, he has imprinted the Socialist International with his own ideological stamp. The Socialist International routinely condemns human rights abuses in South Africa or South Korea, but delegations heading for East European capitals often steer away from controversial subjects. When Poland's General Wojciech Jaruzelski...
...wish to express our dismay at the omission of anthropology from the agenda of the conference recently held at Radcliffe on "Challenging the Conventional Wisdom: A Decade of Research on Women and on the 3rd World "This conference was reported on in your edition of April 9. The omission of the empirical findings and theory of anthropology from the panels was inexplicable in light of the critical contributions the discipline has made to the issues addressed by the conference...
...letting loose of it even for a day seems important now to Pete Rose, almost 42, bothered by the Phillies' predisposition to rest him occasionally this season. But his dismay is blunted by his happiness at being back in the company of old Cincinnati comrades Joe Morgan, 39, and Tony Perez, 40. Besides, Rose has a plan. "Whenever I'm out of the lineup, I'll drive [Manager] Pat Corrales so nuts he'll have to get me out of the dugout. My edge has always been to play every day, to try to lead...
...significantly in error. Now, in this national election, few people trusted poll predictions. Second, with 10.4 percent of the German labor force unemployed and a new high in business bankruptcies, a number of wildcards had been introduced into the political game and upset many players who still recalled with dismay the disastrous political consequences of the 1929 economic depression. Third, the unprecedented appearance of three major foreign leaders--Soviet Foreign Minister Gromyko. French President Mitterand, and Vice President Bush--all parading through Bonn and taking public stands, inevitably produced shock waves echoing back and forth unpredictably in the electorate. Fourth...