Word: dismaying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...harried State Department official looked with dismay at a piece of paper on his desk. It was a list of 25 people he was supposed to call to talk about trouble brewing in another part of the world. "My God," he muttered. "What a week!" Agreed a colleague who overheard him: "A nightmare...
Dead Mechanism. Western Europe heard the news with anger and dismay. West Germany's Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard blamed De Gaulle for a "black day," declaring that "the Common Market is now only a mechanism and no longer a living thing." Alfred Müller-Armack, West Germany's chief negotiator at Brussels, quit his job in disgust. Jean Monnet, the dynamic optimist who is the father of the Common Market, lamented that "there now looms disunion with its inherent dangers.'' Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan told his country on TV: "What happened...
Youth's rebellious mood was measured by a Daily Telegraph Gallup poll, which reported recently that 45% of the under-25 generation would leave Britain if they could. To the government's dismay, 3,300 highly trained scientists and engineers migrated to the U.S. between 1957 and 1961; 250 Ph.D.s, whose training cost the nation $28,000 each, go each year...
President Kennedy announces in his State of the Union message that he is very pleased with himself. Describing McGeorge Bundy as the "Nation's number one asset," he expresses dismay that anyone could think Bundy ambitious. George Romney receives Kennedy's speech coolly: he reveals that an Archangel appeared to him in a vision and urged that he "keep an eye on national politics...
...center sends its list of the colleges with midyear openings to high school guidance counselors who subscribe to the center's reports Cat $22.50 a year). One effect is to undercut a racket that has grown up from the rush for higher education. To the dismay of reputable college counselors, a number of unscrupulous advisers work covert retainers from academically weak, dishonest colleges, charge parents big fees to get dull-witted youngsters into those same colleges-and then get a kickback (10% of tuition) from the college...