Word: dismaying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...liquidation as long ago as last November, they protested loudly when they saw that the U.S. was quite serious about it. 'U.S. BREAKS ITS PROMISE OF ECONOMIC AID,' headlined Rio's Correio da Manhā. Foreign Minister Joāo Neves da Fontoura voiced official dismay. Some Brazilians even talked angrily of denouncing the mutual-defense pact with...
...installation as president of the College of the City of New York, Gallagher looked with "dismay and mounting resentment on the growing tendency in our day for persons, organizations, and groups outside the academic halls to intrude themselves and their ideas upon the college and the university." A few days earlier, two CCNY employees, working in the Registrar's office, were suspended for refusing to testify before a Congressional committee. They were automatically suspended under Section 903 of the New York City Charter, which says that city employees who refuse to answer questions put to them by Government committees automatically...
...denunciations of Butler's work; students daubed one of his other sculptures with paint. And when word got around that Butler hoped his Prisoner would be erected on some such site as the cliffs of Dover, 42 members of Parliament signed a motion "that this House views with dismay the proposal...
Last week, to his dismay, R. J. Bedgood was arrested in Laporte on charges of selling mortgaged property, plus a federal indictment for income-tax evasion. The search had not cost Hazel a cent. Said she, modestly: "I was only doing...
Ending with Absinthe. As might be expected, Leigh looks on modern art with loathing and dismay. His conclusion: it is all an indirect result of absinthe-drinking in mid-19th century France, which "ate away the brains of the French aristocracy and brought vulgar folk into control of the salons and everything else." The vulgar folk, Leigh reasons, thought everything that was different was good, and they slowly imposed their love of novelty and disdain for nature-painting on the whole world of art. Some of today's artists, huffs Painter Leigh, bristling his snowy mustache, have sunk...