Word: dismayed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...screened stack for burning rubbish and gaper. Its real-estate men still hang up strings of flags to advertise a house for sale. Its love of the unusual extends even to the young -high-school boys at Van Nuys began dyeing their hair green this spring, to the dismay of parents and teachers...
...shout. "Professor Romans has said enough!" In the pretense of presenting a gift (in the form of a neatly ribboned box, which later proved empty) this individual seized control of the lectern and proceeded to read four pages of unhumerous and disgusting parody. His arrogance survived even the dismay of Professor Romans, the boos and the shouts of contempt and disapproval of some four hundred angered students...
...note with dismay that in last Friday's CRIMSON your sports department perpetuated the lamentable error of daily press in giving .000 as the batting or fielding average of any baseball player who has not batted or fielded...
...outraged that U.S. dollars should go to socialist Britain. "In England," he declared, "if individuals are unfortunate enough to have lost all their hair . . . they obtain free toupees." The Republicans' ponderous Gene Millikin, whose bald dome glistens like a submerged boulder in a Colorado stream, rose in mock dismay: "What would make a man so depraved that he would want to cover an honest bald head...
...sentence: "Gian's nutty old father . . ." Your reviewer has spoiled everything for me. Had he broken into my apartment and made off with [the book] I could call the police. But he has done worse than that . . . He has robbed me of anticipation, conjecture, apprehension, fear, dismay. The unopened book is a mockery to me now. It has no secrets. It has been ravished...