Word: dismaying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Newspaper reaction was a nearly unanimous cry of dismay. The Liberal Winnipeg Free Press called the tax "silly, illiberal and vindictive." The Tory Globe and Mail branded it "one of the worst tax measures ever devised by the government of a free country." The newspapers also expressed doubt that the tax would be of any help to Canadian magazines. They foresaw that the U.S. publications principally affected (Reader's Digest, TIME, Family Circle, Woman's Day, Everywoman's and Parents Magazine) would raise their advertising and subscription rates, and that advertisers who preferred these publications would continue...
...Nehru led the fight against inclusion of any denunciation of Communist imperialism in the official communiqués. Early this year during the Bulganin-Khrushchev visit to India, he listened unprotestingly while the Russian leaders vilified the U.S. and other Western powers. In private conversation later, an acquaintance expressed dismay at the Russian falsifications, and Nehru replied blandly, "After all, they were essentially right...
Upon reading the letters of protest to a proposed unified armed forces of the U.S. I notice to my dismay that a number of persons are still egotistical and self-centered about their particular service. Wars of tomorrow will require a close coordination of all the services. I hope someone tells this to Pentagon officials...
Council President Edward M. Abramson '57 expressed dismay at the "apparent failure of a seemingly clever scheme" and voiced intention of seeking more concrete explanation of the failure...
Staying Power. From its start, the strike was marked by hatred and intransi gence between the negotiators; each side underestimated the staying power of the other. Inside the conference room, government mediators headed by Federal Media tion Chief Joseph F. Finnegan listened in dismay as the negotiators battled not to ward settlement but farther from it. Once, a union spokesman looked across at a Westinghouse official and bellowed: "You are a goddam tramp." On another occasion, I.U.E. President James Carey strode out of the room after calling Westinghouse "the dirtiest, filthiest, lousiest company on the globe" Management dropped such remarks...