Word: dismay
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...performance, Della Croca, as a reporter, enters and discovers his daughter with the conspirators. At a signal from him, the police rush in, closely followed by the king and the populace. Trivia is recovered by her father, and the identity of the supposed king is made clear, to the dismay of the Dynamiters, who themselves are seized and sentenced to dreadful punishment...
Last month a rumor shot through the legal community that O'Connor would announce her retirement within a few weeks; that came on top of her widely reported dismay, at an election-night party, over news that Florida had gone for Gore. It was "terrible," she said; her husband explained that she wants to retire but not with a Democrat choosing her successor. She's expressed the same desire to friends. Another report, even more recent, had Rehnquist pledging to take a chair at the University of Arizona law school next fall. The guessing game comes in the wake...
...This bit of news was met with dismay by other Labor leaders, who had decided amongst themselves that Barak himself was responsible for losing the election. It was him, they said, not his politics. So they were pretty eager for him to leave...
...Crimson's dismay, the Big Red proved to be just as rough and tough as its fans, pounding out a 2-1victory in a physical contest...
...Still, private adoptions account for about half the roughly 60,000 U.S. adoptions each year, and demand is robust partly because of the growing demands of infertile couples. Many children available through agencies have spent years in foster homes and can have developmental or health problems that dismay would-be parents. Many countries, including Britain, ban privately arranged adoptions to ensure no one profits from trading babies. But in the U.S., private adoptions are so widely accepted that companies often reimburse fees as a benefit to employees...