Word: dismay
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Black, who has a career losing record, and Minnesota Twins infielder Mike Pagliarulo, whose lifetime batting average is a pathetic .236 -- have joined the millionaires' club. While players have mainly free agency to thank, they have also been able to score big bucks through salary arbitration. Much to the dismay of owners, labor mediators called in to settle contract disputes have awarded players hefty pay hikes...
...have been spent trying to woo Desert Storm commander NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF. Frustrated voters would be likely to cheer Stormin' Norman as just the sort of guy who could help get things done in Washington. But Schwarzkopf, who reportedly has turned down Perot at least twice, regards the * Texan with dismay as a loose cannon. Besides, he is believed to have political aspirations of his own, and third parties are no place for national heroes to launch a second career...
After writing for the New Trier High Schoolnewspaper, Turow decided to become an author, muchto the dismay of his parents who had envisioned amedical career for their...
...cameras and their constituents back home than to sound negotiating positions. Hanan did not take that lying down. She telephoned directly to the official involved, a very high-ranking man, and told him just how upset she was. "She took it personally," he says, but shrugs off her dismay...
...grapples with the idea of both his "baby " sister, who is almost twenty years old, having a full-fledged love affair, as well as his neurotic mother taking on lover, Van. All this dismay follows his father's untimely death and the departure of his mother and sister from their decrepit house--his melancholic behavior resonates with allusions to Hamlet...