Word: dismaying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years, a sure way to make any flag officer blanch in dismay has been to suggest that Vice Admiral Hyman Rickover, father of the nuclear submarine, might become Chief of Naval Operations. He never will. But in idol-smashing testimony released last week by a House subcommittee on defense appropriations, he demonstrated what a lively tour of duty he would have...
...fight was started by the rayon manufacturers in dismay over nylon's inroads into a market that rayon had dominated since it knocked out cotton tire cord after World War II. Developing a new, high-strength rayon called Tyrex, the rayon companies formed an association to promote it, even sent teams to high schools to lecture teenagers on the superiority of Tyrex over nylon. Nylon makers, led by Chemstrand Corp.. fought back not only with advertising but with price cuts. Before long, tire-cord prices dropped so sharply that the rayon makers, working on tighter profit margins, found...
...Cuba and sink it. Of the leading figures in the Congo crisis, Baker moans: "I don't know whether I'm reading names or eye charts." Baker is puzzled by the space race. That Russia was first to send a cosmonaut into space does not unduly dismay Baker. "We may not be the first to get a rocket to the moon," he says, "but we'll be the first to send foreign aid." Not the least of the enticements of space travel, Baker claims, is the fact that women on Mars have bosoms on their backs...
...cocksure little Democrat led Incumbent Republican Norris Poulson in Los Angeles' "nonpartisan" mayoralty election. But when Sam Yorty, 51, hung on to win an upset 16,000-vote victory last week, there was precious little celebrating among California's Democratic leaders. Indeed, most of them blanched in dismay -for in a state filled with dissident Democrats, Yorty is perhaps the most dissident...
Bridging the Gaps. Even the enormous growth of private debt does not dismay the Chamber, which argues that "economic growth depends heavily on debt expansion." In fact, as any businessman knows, debt is one of the economy's most valuable lubricants. It helps bridge time gaps between the production of goods and their sale, channels savings into productive investment, allows capital to move more freely, and permits greater equality in buying by allowing people to buy against expectation of future income. The availability of credit strongly affects the economic activity of such groups as small businessmen, home buyers...