Word: dismay
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After four days of instruction and diving, my roommate and I were dubbed licensed open-water scuba divers. We explored the coral reefs of Utila, searching for the elusive local whale sharks. To our dismay, no whale sharks were found, and sea turtles and barracudas had to suffice...
...always thus. "One reads with dismay of Presidents Hoover and then Roosevelt designing policies to combat the Great Depression of the 1930s on the basis of such sketchy data as stock price indices, freight car loadings, and incomplete indices of industrial production," writes the University of North Carolina's Richard Froyen in his macroeconomics textbook...
...with great dismay that I opened The Crimson this morning to read Adbelnasser A. Rashid’s op-ed “Defending the Indefensible.” It is not that I find his opinions to be without merit, but rather that I found his expression of them as hyperbolic and needlessly demagogic as the ones against which he argues...
...Russia-Georgia war, Lukashenko declined to recognize the breakaway Georgian republics of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, despite pressure from Russia to do so. Lukashenko also joined the E.U.'s Eastern Partnership initiative, created in 2008 to strengthen ties between Europe and the ex-Soviet bloc, much to Moscow's dismay. And last June, Belarus refused to attend a key security summit in Moscow after Russia slapped a ban on Belarusian dairy products. (See pictures of Russia celebrating Victory...