Word: dismay
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...THOUGHT THAT KEEPS GOING THROUGH YOUR MIND IS, THIS CAN'T BE MY LIFE. THERE'S BEEN A MISTAKE ... When John Kennedy promised that by the end of the 1960s we would put a man on the moon,' he says, 'everybody, including the scientists, shook their heads in dismay. But we did it. We can cure spinal-cord injuries too, if there's the will. What was possible in outer space is possible in inner space...
...understand the dismay and anger of the students who, as The Crimson reported (News, “Students Rally in Copley, Claim Bush ‘Stole’ Election,” Nov. 4), rallied in Copley Square claiming that Bush stole the elections. However, whatever the suspicions over voting machines that allowed no recount and no auditing, that were supplied by the private company Diebold which is owned by staunch supporters of George W. Bush, the fact is the gesture is futile because Bush is in place and will serve out his four years, doing all the things...
...quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick had re-injured his broken hand during the loss to the Big Green and, stuck on the sideline, could only watch in dismay as the Crimson offense disintegrated. Injuries took out wide receivers Rodney Byrnes and James Harvey in the first quarter and left backup QB Garret Schires with a threadbare receiving corps. Once the Lions realized the sorry state of the Harvard passing game, all they had to do was shut down Clifton Dawson and wait for an inevitable Crimson mistake...
Rumsfeld was lying, or at least bending the truth. The Bush administration has long held—much to the dismay of the world—that militants fighting for international terror organizations such as Al Qaeda, are unlawful combatants, and thus not subject to the protections of any international agreements. Indeed, of the dozen non-Iraqis removed from Iraq, all of them reportedly had links to terror groups or had entered Iraq after the invasion in March 2003 to engage in terror or aid the insurgency. But defining fighters as unlawful combatants is a slippery slope to descend...
Tsai speaks of himself as a lucky member of the late ’70s generation in Taiwan, where he attended the Chinese Cultural University after growing up in Malaysia. Unlike his peers who crammed for the national scholastic exams, and to the dismay of his parents, Tsai took the idiosyncratic path of filmmaking when the art was just budding in Taiwan...