Word: dismay
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Students who waited a long time to apply found to their dismay that work-study grants had run out. Eric M. Chavez '93, who said he originally planned to stay at Harvard this summer and work in a lab with the help of a work-study grant, was forced to take a job at home because he applied after all the grants were allocated...
Then the annual standardized-test scores came in. The parents of McKittrick learned to their dismay that the entire first-grade class -- along with more than a third of the 64-member student body -- had scored below their grade level for both reading and math. "My child was more than a year behind," complained Kathy Bledsoe, one of a group of angry parents who picketed the school board carrying placards that read CAN YOU READ THIS? MY CHILD CAN'T. School officials argued that students had scored even worse in previous years. But by the time school reopened last fall...
America's Purpose (ICS Press; $19.95) culls 16 essays from the small (circ. 8,000) but influential quarterly National Interest. It was in that journal two years ago that Francis Fukuyama fretted over the "end of history" and thus provided a slogan for cold warriors' dismay at the waning of the all-defining struggle and the surrender of the essential enemy. Since then, the right has split into isolationist and internationalist camps. In the pages of this slim volume the two sides square off for intellectual combat of a high order...
...Berkery fed a waiting Tracy Hackeling, who stuffed home another score. Berkery then recorded a goal off of a freeposition shot. With 20:26 left in the half, the game was already a rout, and a silenced Dartmouth coaching staff could do nothing more than look on in dismay as its team was repeatedly victimized by the Crimson's sharp play...
...Crimson bats finally awoke in the bottom of the same frame, much to the dismay of first-year Terrier pitcher Suzanne Barker. A leadoff double by red-hot senior Beth Reilly sparked the Crimson rally...