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Word: dismay (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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People there pop pills to raise their depressed spirits. They cover their paranoia with clenched-jaw politesse. They don't quite understand Martin's dismay when he discovers that his boyhood home has been replaced by a convenience store--where the clerk gets so lost in a noisy video game that he fails to notice a real-life gun battle breaking out in his aisles. Therein lies this movie's fundamental irony: anarchy may bloom from Martin's gun barrel, but unlike his old pals, he is not in denial about it. He is still trying to nurture the shoots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: HIP YOUNG MAN WITH A GUN | 4/28/1997 | See Source »

...Students dismay at the current representation of women and minorities in our Faculty and our curriculum...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Needs More Tenured Minority Faculty | 4/24/1997 | See Source »

...Verba Report, released to the dismay of students six weeks ago, is an unacceptable blueprint for change. It serves only to reinforce the present Core structure--itself a rigid contraption of ambiguous and dated categories of thought--by adding a quantitative reasoning requirement...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: Keep Discussing Core Reform | 4/16/1997 | See Source »

Some Faculty members also expressed dismay that Core classes are large and students rarely interact with their professors...

Author: By Ariel R. Frank, | Title: Decision On Core Unlikely This Year | 4/9/1997 | See Source »

According to students, the water in entries A and B was unexpectedly turned off sometime between 9 and 9:30 a.m., much to the dismay of students trying to take showers before their morning classes...

Author: By Sadie H. Sanchez, | Title: Adams House Awakes to Find Water Outage | 2/6/1997 | See Source »

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