Word: dismaying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Temple Street George and Harry's, a story that later had to be retracted, since everyone knew it wasn't the Temple Street George and Harry's at all. It was on a Saturday that notice of the Fraternity elections appeared, omitting Webb Wilson, Jr. '57, much to the dismay of Mr. Wilson's friends and of Phi Gamma Delta, which had elected him. Such injustice had to be corrected in a special notice a few days later. And, of course, it was on a particularly memorable Saturday last November on which the News predicted Yale would beat Harvard...
Imaginative Flair. When Kimpton attacked the problem of the Hutchins B.A., some professors shook their heads in dismay. But the chancellor made it clear that he had no intention of throwing out the broad sort of program Hutchins had in mind. Today the university offers three plans to its undergraduate students, depending on how much specialization they want. They can 1) take three years of general education and one of specialized "tutorial study," 2) take two years of general education and two of concentration, or 3) combine their general courses with their major throughout the four years. One fairly certain...
Wrong Combination. In Syracuse, N.Y., ex-Convict Russell Bryant, 51, was unable to force a railroad-office strongbox, spent $31 in taxicab fares hauling it around to friends who also failed to open it, in disgust tossed it into the Seneca River, learned to his dismay after being arrested and sentenced to 20 years that it contained $13 in postage stamps and 44 pencils...
...strong and courageous and wise in the doing of our own tasks in accord with the Divine Will." "And now," he said, "please permit me a personal note. Mrs. Eisenhower and I wish all of you . . . everywhere a very merry Christmas . . . God rest you; let nothing you dismay." The President flipped a switch, 2,100 lights winked on the nation's Christmas tree and a bell choir rang out O Come, All Ye Faithful...
...other British West Indies, lured by reports of full employment and encouraged by cut-rate fares promoted by travel agents. Clotting in tight, unhappy knots in Birmingham, Cardiff, Liverpool, Ipswich and London, they swelled Britain's Negro population to more than 50,000, and with embarrassment and dismay, Britons discovered in themselves emotions and prejudices they had never acknowledged...