Word: dismaying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...still feed him. But he was also nourished by myths. One was that he "rooted the Communists out of Government." Like most myths, this had a basis. There were, calamitously. Communists and Communoids in the U.S. Government. Joe did little to root them out. But he learned, to the dismay of his colleagues, to the shame of the executive branch and to the delight of the press, how to bay the loudest when others were following the scent. The myth of McCarthy, The Red Hunter, was hard to kill during the Truman Administration, which had gone on record as considering...
...Hollywood, Moviemaker Dore Schary predicted that a minor depression would hit his industry when color TV is widely seen in U.S. homes. But Schary expressed no dismay over the threat to movies of current black-and-white TV. Judging by most of last week's shows, he had little to worry about...
...plowed through hundreds of thousands of words-a few of them angry. Stormed Dr. Arthur C. McGiffert Jr., president of the Chicago Theological Seminary, about the decision to keep the National Council headquarters in New York City instead of moving it to Chicago: "The decision . . . sent a shiver of dismay and apprehension through the Christian people who live west of the Alleghenies...
...great teacher Gustave Moreau. He practiced and trained and worked, for as he was to tell his own students years later, "One must learn to walk firmly on the ground before one tries the tightrope." To support himself, he tried copying masterpieces in the Louvre-and learned to his dismay that the wives and daughters of the museum guards were better copyists than...
Steel Doldrums. Amid the general rejoicing, there were some groans of dismay. Alcoa was off 11.4%, to $11,525,459. In the chemical industry, American Cyanamid's earnings went up 14%, to $6,434,475, but Union Carbide and Carbon's net slid to $21,342,676, down 19.3%, and Allied Chemical...