Word: dismay
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...other museums watched with interest, on Sept. 16 Denver auctioned off 1,500 items--to the glee of bargain hunters and the dismay of some descendants of the museum's benefactors. Says George Neubert, director of the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery in Lincoln, Nebraska: "What Denver has done is quite new and very bold." And lucrative. The auction raised...
...game tightened even more as the second half began, but then Harvard surged to take a 10-7 lead on the strength of a pair of goals by Kim and one by junior Dan Arbelaez. Yet to the dismay of the Crimson faithful, this seemingly insurmountable mid-third period three-goal Harvard advantage would not last long...
...death itself, murder for money, is too commonplace a story among Floyd's friends to be entirely tragic. They simply miss the man, the power of his presence, his pageantry and showmanship. Living amidst violence, Wilson's characters display nothing like dismay or loathing, but a shared air of acceptance of their dangerous existence...
...draped practice field, a potbellied man limps along, the cuffs of his baggy trousers rolled above his socks. Alone with his thoughts, he shakes his head in dismay, mutters and then scratches something on a much folded sheet of white paper. You might think he was a curmudgeonly equipment manager or an eccentric classics professor. But what gives his identity away, more than the familiar face or the trademark retro eyewear, is the manner in which the behemoths on the field cast periodic glances his way. They know that on that sheet of paper Joe Paterno may be writing down...
...from the assault on Rodney King to the six Philadelphia cops who have pleaded guilty to framing African Americans, have been widely publicized. For that reason, says Don Jackson, a former cop who has devoted himself to exposing police racism in Southern California, "The naive white reaction of shocked dismay is totally disingenuous. It's more like they don't want to know, because if they did, they'd have to do something about...