Word: dismaying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...papal nuncio in Berlin when a distracted SS lieutenant bursts into an afternoon tea and begins a semihysterical recital of the statistical horrors of the "factories of death for people" at Treblinka and Belzec. "I'm sorry . . . why must you come to me?" says the nuncio in visible dismay, advising the SS man to see Herr Hitler. But Father Riccardo is heartstricken and is positive that Pius will protest as soon as he knows...
...Simone wants is to curl up in her plush Paris flat, keeping her children happy and her cupboards full until war's end. When a chance encounter throws Whitman into her lap for safekeeping, Signoret registers magnificent dismay. "I'm not his mother," she objects. Grace à Dieu...
Agony of Laughter. Wallant wrote of suffering; he believed with no sense of dismay that it was man's fate. His first novel, The Human Season, is nothing more than an extended portrayal of the enormous grief of a middle-aged Jewish plumber whose wife has died. The author does not founder in the plumber's sorrow; neither does he regard it with detachment. His view might be that of a loving son or brother who says only, because there is nothing more to say, "This is part of what...
That predictability is now lacking. For one thing, some of the old verities no longer seem so true. The Communist world is not monolithic, and Russia's Khrushchev is beset by economic and political difficulties that would make any Western statesman blanch with dismay (see cover story in THE WORLD). Moreover, in recent months new men have become heads of government in three of the West's four most powerful nations. Konrad Adenauer, Harold Macmillan, and even John Kennedy in his relatively short tenure were known quantities. Their reactions to given challenges could be foretold with considerable accuracy...
...here"; last man to shove him along was Alabama Public Safety Director Al Lingo. When Governor George Wallace heard what had happened he told Lingo that "this sort of thing must not be allowed to happen," and he called Merritt in to shake his hand warmly. "They all expressed dismay," said Merritt, "but it seemed to me there was something insincere about it." He was right. The next day Wallace gave the newspapers his version of the incident: Merritt, the Governor claimed, had resisted the sheriff, would not get off the bus willingly...