Word: dismay
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...public repudiation of a U.S. vote in the United Nations Security Council, which had supported a resolution demanding that Israel dismantle its settlements in the occupied territories, "including Jerusalem." The vote and its disavowal, which managed to outrage both the Israelis and the Arabs, and to baffle and dismay U.S. allies, was blamed on "a failure to communicate." That was hard to believe, and many did not believe it. But if true, it was a remarkable example of official incompetence...
Mistakes often walk hand in hand with bad timing and bad luck. Hardly had the shouts of dismay over the U.N. humiliation ebbed when Pakistan jolted the President by brusquely rejecting a U.S. offer of $400 million in military aid because it was too little ("Peanuts," Pakistan President Zia had said weeks before). Down the drain with that went the efforts of National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, who only five weeks ago on a mission to Islamabad had attempted to convince Zia that his security and future lay with the U.S. America, offering its money and a hint...
...John Kennedy's poll ratings to rise after the debacle at the Bay of Pigs. But there are signs that Carter's extended Indian summer may be turning colder. In the wake of the U.N. uproar, Senator Ted Kennedy began attacking Carter forcefully on the issue; the dismay of pro-Israeli voters could become significant in the two big primaries just coming up: Illinois and New York...
Across the nation, the worsening inflation and the Administration's inability to deal with it have caused widespread dismay. "It has been six or eight months since I've taken my wife to a restaurant," grumbles John Conroy, an accountant in Canton, Mass. David Traver, a student and part-time department-store clerk in Atlanta, cannot replace a car that blew its engine and could not be repaired. Says he: "When I was 19, I could afford to buy a new car. Now I'm 26 and I can't afford to buy a used...
...Undershaft (Philip Bosco) is a munitions magnate. Having renounced his family some 20 years before, he suddenly descends upon them. His wife Lady Britomart (Rachel Gurney) is the same socially ingratiating charmer she always was. Undershaft finds his son Stephen (Nicholas Walker) a simp of propriety, and to his dismay learns that his mettlesome daughter Barbara (Laurie Kennedy) has become a devoted minion of the Salvation Army. Her adoring shadow is Adolphus Cusins (Nicolas Surovy), an elitist teacher of Greek. When Undershaft taunts him as "Euripides" and Cusins flings back "Machiavelli," the tycoon is rather taken with the scholar...