Word: dismaying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...grey-flannel dismay of advertisers everywhere, thousands of teenagers, are lining up across country to buy a product with almost no value of any kind except for laughs. Its name: Greasy Kid Stuff...
Whenever they hear that he is heading their way, U.S. diplomats overseas blanch with dismay. For Ellender has a habit of saying what he thinks-and what he says does not often contribute to international amity. While visiting Korea in 1956, for example, Ellender announced that the South Koreans, then considered good U.S. allies, were nothing better than "bloodsuckers." He found the public market in Mogadishu, Somalia "untidy," but nothing as compared with the "filth" of those in Addis Ababa. He noted that in Nepal "the streets were filled with people. Apparently the citizens do not work very much...
...other grounds, the Eurocrats themselves had reason for dismay at Charles de Gaulle's new strength. Gone glimmering were their hopes for rapid political integration of Europe, which, according to the Rome Treaty, is the grand design of the Common Market. De Gaulle wants no part of a United States of Europe in which France would have to surrender sovereignty to a common Continental Parliament. He wants unity in Europe all right, but of a different kind. For him, the target is the "Europe des Etats," a loose alliance of autonomous nations. Charles de Gaulle clearly hoped that this...
...droop dispiritedly. His baleful eyes are broody with hurt. His massive brow (receding hair) puckers with pain. He is the most excruciatingly funny anatomy of melancholy on Broadway. His wife has just told him that in advanced middle age, he is about to enter second fatherhood. Ford trumpets his dismay: "When he gets out of college, I'll be going on 83-if he's smart." Never Too Late is a one-gag all-night laugh show. That it can be unflaggingly sustained is a marvel. Much is owed to a genius of slapstick farce, Director George Abbott...
...money. Faced with such harsh reality, the owners of the city's papers tried a drastic solution. Last winter two of the four dailies were summarily put to death. The survivors were left with separate morning and afternoon monopolies (TIME, Jan. 12). This double euthanasia drew cries of dismay from all over the U.S. press, and the U.S. Department of Justice threatened an investigation. But by last week it was clear that Los Angeles' drastic solution was working...