Word: dismay
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...jurors obviously believed Mel, much to the dismay of Ozzie Myers, who like the other defendants plans to appeal Said the Congressman, as he left the courtroom: "The jury was confused. I may be guilty of being an ass, but I have done nothing criminal...
THERE ARE MORE serious problems below the Faculty, among the mass of students that will fill your sections and then populate the professional schools. They did a report on race relations at Harvard last year and discovered, to the dean's and others' dismay, that one of every five students here does not respect the academic abilities of minority students they study next to. It wasn't as if minority students needed any more cause for anger; they wanted to build a Third World center, and, right or not, all they got was a committee...
...there are several people who can quit. Those include the casual fan who finds to his dismay that the dialectical struggles surrounding professional sports are too intense for his preferences. There are the sportswriters, who, besieged with a plethora of interesting things to write about, all somehow end up saying the same things. And there are the most dedicated sports fans, who take to self-deprecation because they find themselves unable to keep on top of everything, even with cable t.v. And so, in the middle of what has been a most difficult summer to figure. I officially and unequivocally...
Ironbound Rule F3-c is the product of Democratic reformers' best intentions, a logical outgrowth of their dismay at the chaotic 1968 convention in Chicago, when the mostly male and mostly white delegates chose Hubert Humphrey as their nominee, while Boss Richard Daley jeered at his critics inside the convention hall and his policemen beat antiwar demonstrators outside. To make the nomination process more fairly reflect the wishes of the party's rank and file, the reformers persuaded the National Convention to abolish the unit rule, which allowed all of a state's delegate votes...
...reactionary backlash to what can only be deemed progress, some advocates of the return to the Indian symbol have trumpeted their dismay, claiming minority interests have received preference over others, and that the 1973 ban of the symbol constitutes a curtailment of their right to free expression. One English professor was quoted in The New York Times as saying "People are sick of the claims of victims. Whatever minority groups want these days...