Word: dismay
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wonder. Reagan was addressing almost 3,000 delegates to the Chicago convention of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners-and union officials currently rank not far behind black and feminist leaders in expressing dismay over the Administration's course. "He has cut out every social program we have fought for over the last 40 years," exclaimed Roy Klein, a convention delegate from South Bend, Ind. Boston Delegate Andrew Sarno added: "I don't think he should have been allowed to come here...
...before and after the casinos. Since the first casino opened only three years ago, the Shusters are definitely B.C., and so, of course, are their guests. They are a vanishing breed, living life slowly in a town that wants to move at top speed, watching with dismay as old landmarks give way to new parking lots and glitzy, glass-and-ormolu gaming houses...
Hammett wrote for people with a sharp, aggressive attitude toward life. They were not afraid of the seamy side of things; they lived there. Violence did not dismay them; it was right down their street. Hammett gave murder back to the kind of people that commit it for reasons, not just to provide a corpse and with the means at hand, not hand-wrought dueling pistols, curare and tropical fish. He put these people down on paper as they were and he made them talk and think in the language they customarily used for these purposes. He wrote scenes that...
...news agency Reuters were expelled and their bureau branded "a center of conspiracy against the Islamic revolution," leaving the Italian and French as the only major Western news agencies in Iran. The mullahs also remain wary of Banisadr's lingering influence with the army. Amid rumors of military dismay over the mounting chaos, Khomeini ordered a tough new purge of "deviating elements" among the troops. "Any leniency," he said, "will be like showing mercy to a sharp-toothed tiger...
...anti-Soviet attitude of the Reagan Administration is causing dismay in the Kremlin. During a two-week visit to the U.S.S.R., TIME Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott talked with many Soviet officials about the new U.S. position. A summary of their views...