Word: dismaying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...began the sternest test for Lyndon Johnson on his six-nation tour of Asia as the personal emissary of President John F. Kennedy. Earlier in the week, Johnson had had his problems in the Philippines, where President Carlos Garcia made no secret of his dismay at the soft stand of the U.S. in Laos. In Taipei, Johnson reassured Chiang Kai-shek that the U.S. has no intention of recognizing Red China, intends to stand faithfully behind its commitment to defend Formosa...
...Johnson is a good man," the 73-year-old Gimo told an aide. "I trust him." Thus, in each country, Johnson met the public, talking and pawing his way through the populace and the politicians-to the delight of most, the confusion of many, and the dismay of some...
...This dismay is understandable. The main island and nearby Moorea-James Michener's Bali Ha'i-comprise the classical setting of the unspoiled Polynesian dream: dazzling beaches, translucent water, rich landscapes with green-yellow vanilla patches. Living up to legend, the people are warm, easygoing, unobsessed with the failures of yesterday or the portents of tomorrow. (Though the women are shapely, they are not all beautiful; and most wear conventional clothing-more or less...
...early editorial cheers that accompanied the anti-Castro rebels had subsided, along with the chorus of dismay that followed the news of disaster. Last week it was time for the inquest, and the U.S. press turned to the gloomy business of explaining what went wrong...
...Cuban invasion fell apart, the sympathy and understanding gave way to dismay and plain disgust. "Bad show," said the London Daily Mail-"a shocking blow to American prestige." British cartoonists smirked in print. Said a saddened government official in Bogotá: "The United States should not have allowed the invasion to start unless the chances of success were good." And Masaji Inoue, 31, a Tokyo office worker, mirrored the feeling of much of the free world: "America seems to have messed things up again...