Word: dismay
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...shopping zone has been steadily turning into a nightmare. With the recent departure of the genteel Cambridge Shop (for Ladies) and the Crimson Shop (for Gentlemen), one can imagine the upper echelons of Harvard Real Estate peering down into the morass of the Square and wringing their hands in dismay...
Mather and Dunster House residents moving in yesterday expressed dismay at the sight of an ash-stained Louie...
...Elizabeth Orsay was hard at work in the trauma center of Chicago's Lutheran General Hospital when she was called away from a patient to answer the phone. To her anger and dismay, the caller was a telemarketing pitchman who was touting a special buy on film. "He managed to get through by deceiving the secretary," the still steaming physician recalls. "I told him that what he had done was totally unethical...
...Fatah, Arafat's faction in the P.L.O., has been threatening to demand his removal. Under pressure, Arafat agreed to convene a rare session of the larger, 100-member revolutionary council in Tunis this week to discuss the controversy. Some in the P.L.O. want to oust Arafat because of their dismay over his handling of peace talks with Israel. Says a Fatah official: "For the Chairman this is a 'to be or not to be' situation...
...boyfriend, is so depressed that she can't face a job interview. "You can do anything you want to do," her father urges. "No, I can't," she replies. (No easy pep-talk solutions here.) Yet when she arrives stoned at a family gathering, her relatives overcome their dismay and rally around her. In Laurel Avenue, people may have trouble looking out for themselves, but they look out for one another. Like a family...