Word: dismaying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...French nuclear program is a small one and designed more to impress its friends than dismay its enemies. So far it has done neither. U.S. specialists are convinced that the Sahara bomb is a crude device and that the French are still a long way from packaging a bomb small enough to be carried by missiles-which France also lacks. But French nuclear persistence has a nuisance value. Clearly, France belongs in the Geneva atomic test-ban talks scheduled for Feb. 7. But as a negotiator, Charles de Gaulle may well be almost as difficult as the Russians...
WITH this week's portrait of Columnist Sylvia Porter, Vienna-born Artist Henry Koerner, 45, chalks up cover portrait No. 15-a gallery of paintings that have caused some TIME readers to applaud us for printing great art, others to hoot in dismay. One woman was so appalled by the appearance of New York Times Washington Correspondent James Reston (Feb. 15) that she wrote in asking about the state of his health: "The boiled right eye with its drooping lid, the bulbous nose-everything he eats or drinks must disagree with...
...military settlements overseas, the news about dependents touched off flurries of dismay-even though the reduction is to be carried out gently and gradually, not by separating families already overseas, but by sending fewer dependents abroad in the future. Many a serviceman grumbled that he would not re-enlist if he could not have his wife and children with him overseas, and Army Secretary Wilber Brucker, playing his favorite role of Big Brother to Army dissidents, made things worse by warning of plunging morale. At a U.S. military colony near Paris, an Army officer's wife looked up from...
...colonel, in political views from fuzzy neutralist to near Fascist. As leaders of the revolution, they had an important voice within the Unity Committee, and had used it to support the notion that the army had a mission to continue running Turkey. On occasion, to Gursel's dismay, they carried the day within the committee for such highhanded measures as the summary firing last month of 147 university professors suspected of antiarmy sentiments...
...woman's husband. Malloy's closest friend, tells him that he loved his wife deeply. "On my way home," the narrator relates, looking into the middle depths, "I realized that until then I had not known him at all. It was not a discovery to cause me dismay. What did he know about me? What, really, can any of us know about any of us, and why must we make such a thing of loneliness when it is the final condition...