Word: dismaying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Many student applicants express dismay either with the recruiter or with the methods he uses in promoting his company. In a controlled post-interview rating session at the University of Michigan, students tended to give a low rating to interviews in which (1) the recruiter was too much of a machine, working by rote; (2) he wasted the student's time by not being businesslike...
...First Step. Much to their dismay, the airlines have discovered that many a businessman who had been counted on to pay full fare has learned to juggle his travel to take advantage of the cut-rate schedules. TWA figures that $20 million worth of business that otherwise would have produced full fares will be diverted to discount fares this year, adding only $16.7 million to revenues. "In this respect, we've been our own worst enemies," says Executive Vice President G. Ray Woody of National Airlines. Despite a 17% rise in total operating revenues, the nation's eleven...
...Ambassador Goldberg implores Hanoi to negotiate and expresses dismay that the enemy prefers to suffer destruction rather than come to the negotiating table [Sept. 29]. It seems reasonable that they should do so. Negotiation means to bargain, to compromise and to be flexible in the resolution of a contentious issue. It is a voluntary and peaceful proceeding. Therefore, negotiation cannot be entered into while the war is ongoing. Violence seeks surrender, not negotiation. To ask for negotiation while continuing the violence is a contradiction in terms; it is a counterfeit proposal...
...Petrocelli cupped a feeble pop-up for the final out, the crowd spilled on-to the field. The Fall had begun. It was a reckless, selfish attempt to prolong that wild earlier feeling. But delirium turned to confusion, and the unskilled, inexperienced teenagers seized on greed to disguise dismay. Love became violence. They tore at Lonborg's uniform, dug their fingers into the mound, striped the bases, raped the scoreboard...
...rioting broke out in Negro slums this summer, no publications expressed more dismay than Negro newspapers. "Madness of the first degree," said the Houston Forward Times. "The work of depraved minds who are too sick to know better." The Chicago Daily Defender has launched a contest for the best advice on how to "Keep a Cool Summer." Even the paper's switchboard operators are instructed to answer: "Keep a cool summer, hello...