Word: dismayed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Many have said that war is hell. If war is hell, who is the culpable evildoer? Saddam Hussein calls George Bush "Satan," and Bush calls Hussein the "Butcher of Baghdad." So who is the real warlock? To the dismay of the unequivocal supporters of either Hussein or Bush, both epithets are correct in that both are responsible for much of the world's recent fiendishness. This is obviously distasteful news to our self-censoring listeners who ignore their own country's fallacies. But facts are facts...
...hard to find anyone last week in the education world who did not express dismay at a Washington bureaucrat's decision to bar federal aid to colleges and universities that offer scholarships restricted to minority students. The amount of money at risk is likely to be small, since need-based aid and minority scholarships established by private organizations like the United Negro College Fund remain legal. Colleges may also continue to take race into account in awarding money so long as it is not the only factor involved -- and financial need rather than race is often the dominant consideration...
When the street people first appeared in force a decade or so ago, they inspired shouts of dismay and calls for action. Cities hurriedly opened shelters; churches converted their basements into temporary dormitories; soup kitchens doubled their seating capacity. When the problem only grew worse, city officials across the nation sought to drive beggars from their tunnels and parks and public doorways. The homeless became targets; sleeping vagrants were set afire, doused with acid and, in a particularly horrific attack in New York City last Halloween, slashed with a meat cleaver. Finally came resignation. After years of running hurdles over...
...dismay of other retailers, outlet stores are hot, just in time for Christmas and the recession. -- AT&T seeks to buttress its computer division with a hostile...
...read with dismay Thomas Watson's apology to the Catholic Students Association for offending them by showing ACt UP's Stop the Church video. When is the Catholic Students Association going to apologize for killing thousands, all in the name of a reactionary sexual politics...