Word: dismay
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...graduate of adolescence in the '60s, I assure Mr. Morrow that his assessment is perfectly tuned. Many of my peers have become remarkably good parents, bungling through the familiar territory their parents did. Like them, we are making mistakes and being human, to the dismay of our tolerance-strained offspring. My generation is reconciled to our parents, and have a lot of love to give...
...rebellion was led by four former Labor Cabinet ministers who put their careers on the line in order to spotlight their deep dismay at the increasing power of the far left in the Labor Party. The first to bolt was Shirley Williams, former Education Secretary and for years one of Labor's most popular front benchers. She resigned last month from the Labor national executive committee, declaring pointedly that "the party I loved and worked for no longer exists." She was followed by Owen, former Transportation Minister William Rodgers, and onetime Deputy Party Leader and Home Secretary Roy Jenkins...
...they both committed errors. Hamilton, wheeling around the ice in a simple stroking move, pushed too hard, slipped and fell. Because it was a simple move, he was not penalized severely, though he did not know that at the time. He snapped his fingers in surprisingly good-natured dismay, like a man who had just dropped his keys, not his chances at a world championship. Hamilton later said that he had become so excited by the crowd response after he completed his most difficult triple jump that he told himself, " 'Okay, here we go.' I was really wanting...
...disruptions of regional politics as they are essential to the economies of the industrial West. Thus the current fears about the potential threat to Pakistan from Soviet legions on the other side of the Khyber Pass in Afghanistan may give way within a few years to even deeper dismay over Pakistan's seeming inability to heal its ethnic divisions, curb its birth rate and ultimately feed its people. The collapse of Pakistan from within-and Pakistan is just one example-could have serious repercussions throughout its region: renewed warfare with India over Kashmir, say, or the spread of tribal...
...risk of an outdoor field being spotted by authorities, many growers have moved into abandoned warehouses with low rents. In the biggest raid yet in 1981, DEA agents found $200,000 worth of hydroponic pot in a warehouse just outside of San Fransisco two weeks ago. To their dismay, the crop was not only growing faster than normal, but it contained, according to the DEA, "at least twice as much THC tetrahy-drocannibol--pot's active ingredient) as the best Colombran grass...