Word: dismay
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Secretary of State decided not to appear before the platform committee, but William Casey, Reagan's campaign manager, insisted that Kissinger be allowed to address the convention. "He's earned the right to speak," said Casey. "He's been a good soldier for the party." Much to right-wing dismay, Reagan scheduled a session with Kissinger this week...
...this barbarism, the two sisters alight at an English country house in the early 1950s. Grace soon slips into a conventional marriage. More independent, Caro aspires to a career in a government office. But when two men enter into Caro's orbit, they create a conjunction that would dismay an astrologer. The first, Ted Tice, becomes obsessed by Caro. He sees his attachment as an "intensification of his strongest qualities, if not of his strengths: not a youthful adventure, fresh and tentative, but a gauge of all effort, joy, and suffering known or imagined. The possibility that he might...
...purposes of the novel, Bogarde has invented a large island called Paradise in the Java Sea, and a well-born young captain named Rooke, an actor in civilian life, who is sent there as a replacement. Rooke's first responses to the island are dismay and drunkenness, but duty and friendship draw him into the life of his regiment and the battered port city where it is stationed...
Across the country, the nation's restive black communities reacted with dismay and concern but stayed quiet, in part because the identity and motive of the would-be killer (or killers) remained complete mysteries. Local officials insisted that there was no racial tension in Fort Wayne that would account for the coldblooded attempt to slay Jordan. The industrial city of 200,000-12% black-has had no serious racial incidents since the 1960s. Said Fort Wayne Mayor Winfield Moses Jr.: "Anyone who is expert with guns could have done this...
Anglo American has shown a devotion to liberal causes. Prominent among them is the goal of "black advancement," which the company has sought to promote through various recruitment schemes over the past five years. To the dismay of Chairman Harry Oppenheimer, 71, consultations with the company's black employees last year exposed most of those efforts as ineffective. A subsequent study came up with 33 recommendations for new programs. The blunt response from the chairman's office: "Accept them...