Word: dismay
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...Dismayed Ally. In 1958 there was a rash of 18 forgeries. One, an ingeniously planted U.S. diplomatic dispatch, purportedly came from Elim O'Shaughnessy, then chief of the political section of the U.S. Embassy in Bonn. It counseled the backing of neofascist groups in West Germany that were known to be plumping for the return of Alsace-Lorraine to the fatherland. Though false, the "document" created real dismay at the Quai d'Orsai...
Garbed like an Eskimo and puffing on a cigarette, the Duchess of Kent, 54, anxiously watched the British army ski championships at St. Moritz, Switzerland. Reason for her visible dismay was the performance of the team captain of the Royal Scots Greys-her son, the Duke of Kent, 25. The duke fell twice in the downhill, each time losing a ski, was disqualified in the slalom. Straight-faced the London Daily Telegraph: "The duke was none the worse for his experience...
...French nuclear program is a small one and designed more to impress its friends than dismay its enemies. So far it has done neither. U.S. specialists are convinced that the Sahara bomb is a crude device and that the French are still a long way from packaging a bomb small enough to be carried by missiles-which France also lacks. But French nuclear persistence has a nuisance value. Clearly, France belongs in the Geneva atomic test-ban talks scheduled for Feb. 7. But as a negotiator, Charles de Gaulle may well be almost as difficult as the Russians...
...colonel, in political views from fuzzy neutralist to near Fascist. As leaders of the revolution, they had an important voice within the Unity Committee, and had used it to support the notion that the army had a mission to continue running Turkey. On occasion, to Gursel's dismay, they carried the day within the committee for such highhanded measures as the summary firing last month of 147 university professors suspected of antiarmy sentiments...
...woman's husband. Malloy's closest friend, tells him that he loved his wife deeply. "On my way home," the narrator relates, looking into the middle depths, "I realized that until then I had not known him at all. It was not a discovery to cause me dismay. What did he know about me? What, really, can any of us know about any of us, and why must we make such a thing of loneliness when it is the final condition...