Word: dismaying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Reaction in the U.S. and abroad ranged from dismay to a kind of shocked ribaldry. JACKIE, HOW COULD YOU? headlined Stockholm's Expressen. "Nixon has a Greek running mate," cracked Bob Hope, "and now everyone wants one." Said a former Kennedy aide: "She's gone from Prince Charming to Caliban." In a more sober vein, French Political Commentator André Fontaine wrote in Le Monde: "Jackie, whose staunch courage during John's funeral made such an impression, now chooses to shock by marrying a man who could be her father and whose career contradicts?rather strongly, to say the least?...
Eugene Kinasewich, assistant dean of the College, expressed dismay at the decline in Marshall applications. He noted that this year's group was stronger academically and more active politically and socially than in previous years. "We have better Marshall material than Rhodes," Kinasewich said, "and I think we have the academic power to warrant more Marshall applicants...
...work, has been threatened by the storms of social change They now find it an incomprehensible world of yippies and hippies, riots, crime and inconclusive war, and they long for solutions couched in phrases that they can understand and relate to themselves. Their quiet protest, voiced in tones of dismay and bewilderment rather than anger, has led them to espouse George Wallace. The candidate from Alabama expresses their ideas as though he has read their minds...
...that surprising. The only surprise, in fact, was the look on Wallace's face. Beaming with pleasure and pride, the Alabamian introduced his candidate to a Pittsburgh press conference, then stepped aside to let the general speak. Wallace's expression quickly turned to obvious dismay. Within the space of a minute, LeMay had made even Wallace appear, by contrast, the image of the statesmanlike candidate...
Even the generally docile and conservative hierarchy of Italy has issued a less than rigorous interpretation of the encyclical-much to the dismay of the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith which tried to get the statement toughened. The 20 cardinals and bishops who approved it expressed "profound gratitude" to the Pope for Humanae Vitae. However, they described the encyclical as but one "essential element in the formation of conscience so that responsible judgment can result in conformity with God's will." They recommended that priests exercise lenience with couples who, for reasons other than...