Word: dismaying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Explorer Dwight Eisenhower finally reached the windswept Summit, he saw to his dismay that the snow had been badly trampled, and disappearing down the snowy slope trundled a short, squat figure, the broad backsides, the large roll of fat clearly discernible between the ears. It was the Abdominal Snowman! Thus ended another episode in the series, "Explorer Eisenhower's Gullible Travels...
...Idaho came an answering echo from gallivanting Jack Kennedy, who had not been saying much about foreign affairs lately. "Our leadership appears palsied," he said, "and sympathy, not respect, is the reluctant sentiment we elicit from our allies-sympathy for the President as a man of good will, but dismay at the shocking lack in presidential directive as displayed in the U-2 incident. The maintenance of peace and the security of Berlin should not hang on the constant possibility of engine failure...
...Wicked World. Had Khrushchev committed the fatal psychological error of protesting too much? When news of Powers' capture first broke, the reaction of many free-world nations was dismay and indignation at Washington. Pakistan's Foreign Secretary Mohammed Ikramullah stiffly declared that, if Soviet charges that Powers' flight began at Peshawar proved true, Pakistan would "lodge a strong protest with the Government of the U.S." With less justification, the Norwegian government did make a formal protest, asked the U.S. "to take all necessary steps to avoid that similar landings are planned in the future." In Japan, where...
...Point Barrow. The University of Alaska might dismay some Outside purists. "I wouldn't send my son here," concedes one faculty member privately, "but I enjoy the work immensely. What a challenge! It's like working in a slum." One reason: the university is obliged to accept any Alaskan high school graduate (at free tuition), has a 40% freshman drop-out rate. Unlike most state universities, it also has twice as many men (545) as women (274), no solace for half the men on 30-below winter nights...
...cowboy pistol dangling at his hip and a sawed-off ladies' driver in his hands. Everyone around the Latrobe, Pa. Country Club knew Arnie Palmer, the club pro's five-year-old son. Coming up to drive, the women players would chuckle at the kid, then look with dismay toward the drainage ditch that lay 120 yards down the fairway. At that point, Arnie would make a sound business offer: "I'll knock your ball over the ditch for a nickel...