Word: dismaying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...denauer deliberately decided to stress economic recovery and attachment to West rather than reunification, Shirer pointed out. Expressing dismay at the additional American advocacy of reunificatioin, he declared that such a step would almost preclude the possibility of pro-Western Germany...
...mass, Communism's wall at Berlin grew ever higher, ever thicker. Bands of Volkspolizei (people's police) strung more strands of barbed wire atop the concrete blocks to stop the desperate dozens of East Berliners who were still leaping over the parapet to freedom; but to the dismay of officials, four Vopos on a fence-mending detail themselves threw down their tools and took the opportunity to flee west. In front of the wall, Communist workers laid heavy new barriers to frustrate daredevil drivers who had discovered a new way to escape. Most talented of these...
...Lover-whom Bergman wittily conceives as the typical hero of a hair-oil ad, the sort of won't-you-be-my-Valentino every schoolgirl at some point adores-arrives at the rendezvous to find his ladylove smeared with housepaint and dressed in blue jeans. He stares in dismay. What...
Twice in the past month, the U.S. has confidently expected to reap sweeping propaganda advantages from unmistakable evidences of Communist brutality. But there was no world outcry over the blockading of the border between East and West Berlin; and the private dismay of neutralists over the Soviet testing was hidden in guarded words at Belgrade. Last week, in a departure from his past policy, President Kennedy publicly warned that U.S. foreign aid in the future would go primarily to those countries whose thinking comports with that of the U.S.-and whose professed neutralism is not merely a disguise...
Died. Captain May Williams, 70, a 48-year veteran of the Salvation Army, whose dismay when her son Ted took to playing Sunday baseball for a brewery gave way to pride after he became the peerless slugger of the Boston Red Sox ("The reason he is so good is that God cooperates"); of a stroke; in a Santa Barbara, Calif., nursing home...