Word: dismay
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...other side of the Atlantic, workers at the Daily Mirror expressed dismay and anger after it was revealed that Captain Bob, as the swashbuckling Maxwell was dubbed years ago by the British humor magazine Private Eye, had looted their pension fund and treasury in order to prop up his personal fiefdom. The transactions, which took place in the months before he died, are being probed by British authorities. Last Friday SFO agents raided the family headquarters at Maxwell House in search of documents relating to the missing pension funds. Still, bemoans Ossie Fletcher, the former editor of the Mirror Group...
...would like to express our dismay that some members of our community have seen fit to attack Peninsula staff viciously over the phone. While we share their anger about the attitudes promoted by Peninsula, we cannot support their means of expressing...
...past, it was the agency's directorate of operations that tended to draw public scrutiny and occasional dismay. For example, the last time television audiences were treated to a lengthy official probe of the CIA was in the mid-1970s, when committees on Capitol Hill exposed a variety of bizarre plots to "destabilize" pro-Moscow regimes and "terminate with extreme prejudice" leftists and revolutionaries. But even when American citizens objected to specific capers or methods, few challenged the need for covert action...
...only is wetland restoration expensive, but the vitality of restored wetlands also frequently proves disappointing. Initially, a new wetland created in south San Diego Bay seemed to do well -- until it became infested with tiny plant-sucking insects. Then scientists learned, to their dismay, that grasses in the artificial marsh did not grow high enough to provide the beetle predators of these pests with waterproof living quarters. Today, five years after its construction, this underachieving wetland continues to struggle along. Its grasses are stunted, its food web impoverished. Biologist Joy Zedler, director of San Diego State University's Pacific Estuarine...
...July 2 at a concert not far from St. Louis, Rose got into a fight with a camera-toting biker (cameras are banned at Guns concerts) and ended up storming off the stage, to the dismay of 20,000 fans. In the ensuing riot, 16 people were arrested, 60 were injured, and $200,000 in property damage was sustained...