Word: dismaying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...With the sudden multiplication of the number of [Federal] fellowships, we're in a rough competitive situation," President Pusey said last week. Although "our first reaction was shock and dismay," he said that most departments now believed that they could maintain or raise the quality of their graduate students...
...would like to express to you the dismay which I felt--and which many persons of my acquaintance share--toward your handling of the recent Class Marshal elections. I believe that you contorted facts, if you did not distort them, to convey to you readers the personal contempt and great amusement with which you viewed the entire affair...
...respect for the sacred name, some devout Jews never pronounce the Hebrew word for God. Rabbi Sherman Wine, 36, of Birmingham Temple in the Detroit suburbs, has another reason for not mentioning the deity: he cannot prove that God exists. To the consternation and dismay of his fellow Reform rabbis, Wine publicly declares, "I am an atheist," and has expunged the name of God from all services at his temple. Wine is a rather special sort of atheist. Technically, he calls himself an "ignostic," which Wine defines as someone who will only accept the truth of statements that...
...sister, Princess Radziwill, into its cover act: WITH SADNESS WE REPORT: WHY JACKIE'S SISTER is A BAD INFLUENCE ON HER. In the past year, said Motion Picture, Princess Radziwill, described as a "jet-setter," has insistently urged her sorrowing sister "into this eddy of meaningless movement." With dismay the magazine also reported that Mrs. Kennedy had actually been seen in Shepheard's, the Manhattan discotheque that is "one of the jet-set's favorite rendezvous...
...Dismay. The man whom these churchmen were expected to nominate is the Rev. Patrick Rodger of Scot land's Episcopal Church, choice of the council's powerful 16-man executive committee at a meeting held in Tutzing, Germany, last August. There were quiet complaints even then about Rodger, a scholarly theologian who has been on the council's staff, as head of its Faith and Order Department, only since 1961. He is well liked in Western ecumenical circles but virtually unknown to Orthodoxy and the "new churches" of Asia and Africa, which are playing an increasingly important...