Word: dismay
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...other grounds, the Eurocrats themselves had reason for dismay at Charles de Gaulle's new strength. Gone glimmering were their hopes for rapid political integration of Europe, which, according to the Rome Treaty, is the grand design of the Common Market. De Gaulle wants no part of a United States of Europe in which France would have to surrender sovereignty to a common Continental Parliament. He wants unity in Europe all right, but of a different kind. For him, the target is the "Europe des Etats," a loose alliance of autonomous nations. Charles de Gaulle clearly hoped that this...
...money. Faced with such harsh reality, the owners of the city's papers tried a drastic solution. Last winter two of the four dailies were summarily put to death. The survivors were left with separate morning and afternoon monopolies (TIME, Jan. 12). This double euthanasia drew cries of dismay from all over the U.S. press, and the U.S. Department of Justice threatened an investigation. But by last week it was clear that Los Angeles' drastic solution was working...
...uncompromising work of scholarship, the new Torah has something to antagonize everybody. Singers of spirituals will note with dismay that the Israelites crossed the Sea of Reeds rather than the Red Sea. Moralists may be chagrined at the retranslation of the Third Commandment, which now reads, ''You shall not swear falsely by the name of the Lord your God; for the Lord will not clear one who swears falsely by His name"-a dictum against perjury but not profanity. From increased knowledge of ancient Hebrew, the scholars translated the Hebrew nefesh to mean "the man himself" rather than...
...neighbors come in to commiserate, and suddenly Humbert has to act sorry himself amidst his drunken stupor. Then the apologetic father of the cab driver who killed Mrs. Haze enters and offers to pay for the funeral expenses. Humbert, now quite confused, agrees, much to his benefactor's dismay...
...Evil. As skillfully as he describes the horrors of the mountain, Olsen conveys the hell within Corti. Alone on his ledge, Corti cursed the planes that buzzed uselessly by. After his rescue, he murmured gratefully, "How beautiful the sun is." But in the next breath, to his rescuers' dismay, he boasted exultantly that he had conquered the Eiger. Later, he was pilloried in the press and charged with deserting Longhi to save himself. When he was finally vindicated, he swore that he would attempt the mountain once again. "I dream about it all the time, that evil wall...