Word: dismaying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Telegrams from the White House. Phil Perlman's victory grin, and the steel lawyers' open dismay, showed how the tide of the legal battle had apparently shifted in the Administration's favor. But Phil Murray did not volunteer to call off the strike. The day after the circuit court decision, Harry Truman had to move again. At his regular news conference, he insisted that he would abide by the court rulings. He had no ambition to be a dictator, he said. He just wanted to keep the country running. That night he sent off telegrams to Phil...
When the package arrived at their Long Island home, the Bohlings opened it carefully, hands trembling, then looked at the contents in mild dismay. Said Mrs. Bohling: "This was the stuff you have to cook. The other didn't have to be cooked. It was like a salami...
...Ponty is eminently well qualified to do. A shy, retiring type, less noticed than his flashier school chum, he has been writing heavy technical works on philosophy ( The Structure of Behavior, The Phenomenology of Perception). In the existentialist cafés, Merleau-Ponty's appointment was greeted with dismay, "Ça alors," protested a young woman in blue denims and a wind jacket, "you think you are in the avant-garde and then one day, presto, you are in the rear guard...
...teacher at a progressive school in the United States observed to her dismay one morning a small puddle outside the classroom door. Most unhygienic. As she walked to her desk she thought: 'We mustn't set up any guilt complexes.' Inspiration came. 'Children,' she said, 'I've noticed that mess outside the door. We must, of course, keep our school clean. So we will all put our hands over our eyes and whoever was responsible will go out quietly and mop it up. Then he or she can return to the room...
...ardent believer in the Protestant faith. I have also written to my Senator concerning the appointment of an ambassador to the Vatican, which I am vehemently against . . . However, to my utter dismay, a group of such Protestants ventured to Washington, D.C. and displayed a shameful act of bigotry. Their statements and general actions were not displayed to express their opposition to the appointment but to express their disdain for our friends and neighbors, the Roman Catholics . . . CLARKE SCHAAF Springfield, Mass...