Word: dismaying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Very Damn Rude." The portrait arrived back at the Hurd ranch-c.o.d. Nevertheless, Mrs. Johnson persuaded Hurd to try a smaller portrait, 30 in. by 36 in., based on the President's favorite photograph. The picture was taking shape when, to Hurd's dismay, he discovered that "that photograph was in every little bureaucrat's office in America-including the post office in San Patricio. I couldn't plainly copy such a picture. I lost interest." However, he finished the large portrait and shipped it off to Washington. Several months later he got a letter...
...favoring the "organization" of crime--the one about "internalizing" some of the costs that fall on the under-world itself but go unnoticed, or ignored, if criminal activity is decentralized. The individual hijacker may be tempted to kill a truck driver to destroy a potential witness, to the dismay of the underworld, which suffers from public outrage and the hightened activity of the police. A monopoly or a trade association could impose discipline. This is not a decisive argument, nor does it apply to all criminal industries if it applies to a few; but it is important...
Though the essence of the change lies in rising incomes, education, family life and culture, the most visible demonstration is found in election returns. To the dismay of the pros-mostly Democrats, since the Democrats have long counted the ethnic groups in their column-minorities in the recent elections picked and chose with as much stiff-necked individualism as any Mayflower Yankee...
...there-five women, a three-year-old girl and a baby-into a back room. One woman shouted, "There'll be 40 people here in a few minutes." Smith replied: "I'm sorry, but I didn't bring enough ammunition for them." He found to his dismay that the sandwich bags were too small to pull over a person's head, but he still had his knives and his pistol. So Smith ordered his victims to lie down in a circle like spokes in a wheel-their heads at the center, their feet on the perimeter...
...went to work for the New Deal," Pike says. "I had a real sense of cause, of saving the widows and orphans from being robbed by Wall Street." He became engaged to another agnostic, Esther Yanovsky, and together they drew up their own marriage service; much to their dismay, the judge who presided at their 1942 wedding* blandly used the formula from the Episcopal Book of Common Prayer...