Word: dismayed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...began, "Are the quiz shows rigged?" and went on to detail ways producers stacked the deck in favor of certain players, like posing questions in a contestant's strongest area of knowledge. Fooling the public is a venerable show-biz tradition; the quiz-show producers found out, to their dismay, just how much fooling the public was willing to accept...
...didn't happen--with only four ticks left on the clock, UMass scored the game-winner to the dismay of the Harvard players and fans at Blodgett pool...
Before the dean arrives, a police officer comes to my daughter's door. He asks if my daughter feels safe. She tells him, "No" soon after that, Dean Hewit arrives, asking if she had seen a police officer and what she said to him. The dean expressed dismay at what she said on the police and left immediately. The policeman returns and her former roommates to the Harvard Police Department for safekeeping. He tells her that he doesn't want her to go back on campus until the boy is arrested. My daughter and her roommates are treated with kindness...
...Burns is a romantic about baseball, so it is hardly surprising that the current major league strike causes him dismay. "The thing I feel most passionately about is that these guys are custodians of something a lot more important than their own bottom line," he says. "The history of baseball is the history of phenomenal human beings and events, like Roger Maris hitting 61 home runs. To think that across the board, for both owners and players, something could be more important than Ken Griffey or Frank Thomas or Matt Williams hitting that many home runs -- I find it just...
...Robertses' dismay, the merger with CBS would have sliced Comcast's 15% stake in QVC to 4.9% of the new company; even though the Robertses would have profited handsomely from the deal, it would have left them with little voice in the fate of the shopping network they had nurtured. Moreover, regulations limiting cross-ownership would have kept Comcast, the nation's third largest cable-TV operator with revenues of $1.3 billion, from ever taking a seat on the merged company's board or increasing its holdings beyond 5%. "We were open with Barry about our predicament because of government...