Word: dismay
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...early editorial cheers that accompanied the anti-Castro rebels had subsided, along with the chorus of dismay that followed the news of disaster. Last week it was time for the inquest, and the U.S. press turned to the gloomy business of explaining what went wrong...
...Cuban invasion fell apart, the sympathy and understanding gave way to dismay and plain disgust. "Bad show," said the London Daily Mail-"a shocking blow to American prestige." British cartoonists smirked in print. Said a saddened government official in Bogotá: "The United States should not have allowed the invasion to start unless the chances of success were good." And Masaji Inoue, 31, a Tokyo office worker, mirrored the feeling of much of the free world: "America seems to have messed things up again...
...pound on a U.N. desk with his shoe to frighten the world has really been utterly inept. In fact, suggests Pushkov (and Author Beal) in a pointed reversal of cliches, it was the Russian bigwigs who saw Khrushchev "playing American roulette with Russian security" and looked on with dismay as he became "soft" on capitalism...
Richard A. Rand '62 editor of the Advocate, seemed as disappointed as the rest. "That's awful," he said in dismay. One wasn't sure whether he was speaking of the abortive welcoming demonstration or the ticket sales. Only 250 showed up in Sanders Theater to hear Rexroth Saturday...
...most of Japan's 94 million people, the frequent mild earthquakes that rattle windows and dismay tourists are routine works of the gods. But the nearly 3,000 employees of Dentsu Advertising, Ltd. are subject to other tremors and are often heard to groan: "Oh Oni is angry again." Oh Oni-or Big Demon-is no evil spirit from the nether world, but the nickname of Dentsu's autocratic, dynamically modern-minded president, Hideo Yoshida, 57, who almost singlehanded has built Dentsu into the world's fifth largest* advertising agency with yearly billings...