Word: dismaying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trouble with Milton Shapp," Pennsylvania's Democratic Chief David Lawrence was once heard to grumble, "is that he wants to start at the top." What Milton wants, Democratic panjandrums learned to their dismay last week, Milton gets. With the money, smooth organization and stubborn resolve to achieve his aim, Democrat Shapp shellacked his party's machine-backed gubernatorial nominee by al most 50,000 votes...
Complex Strategy. The crowd roared (from a tape recorder) as an announcer called out the plays to a small but fanatical live audience. For all the excitement it could have been Green Bay v. Cleveland. Instead, as a growing number of football widows have been discovering to their dismay, the name of the game is Pro Quarterback, a hot new "adult" game...
...present reaction to the draft is that Viet Nam is a limited war that has not yet demanded the full strength of the U.S., and therefore requires only a certain number of the nation's eligible men. Today's draftee may feel not only the normal dismay at going into the service but resentment at having been singled out while others in roughly similar situations escape. With better reason than usual, he may ask; Why me? "The way things are now," said one Manhattan inductee, "half go and half luck...
...Debate & Dismay. Dahood's translation, which tries to evoke the brisk, rugged quality of Hebrew poetry, is certain to cause both scholarly debate and popular dismay. Like all modern scholars, Dahood has access to more accurate manuscripts than those available to the translators of the King James version. Thus his syntax and synonyms are often radically different from what is found in the King James, and he abandons many of its most hallowed images. Gone from Psalms 23, for example, is the elegiac "Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear...
...order Danish pastry in Copenhagen and people will shrug their shoulders in dismay. They call it Vienna bread. Ask for vichyssdise in Vichy: until recently the French waiter said blankly, "Pardon?" And why should he know? It was invented in 1917 by Louis Diat, the chef at New York's Ritz-Carlton Hotel to take advantage of all those extra potatoes...