Word: dismaying
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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General David Martin, commander of the U.S. Army base near Mainz, had come with his civilian interpreter to join in the jolly burghers' celebration. But, to his dismay, he thought he detected a lack of strategic support on Miss Nelson's person. Though there is no written rule on the matter, the Army sent her a flat letter of reprimand...
...been pouring out words ever since. Today Felix had something special in his mind. Whereupon, for two hours Frankfurter spread before us the details of the "portentous case of Sacco-Vanzetti." He brought to that small room the full range of his social passion, his outrage, his dismay at the prospect of two men being railroaded to their death in an unfair trial presided over by a prejudiced judge...
...dismay of some of his friends, Beckett began to imitate Joyce's mannerisms. He dangled his cigarettes carelessly from limp-wristed hands. Although he was nearsighted, his eyes were not then seriously troublesome, but he held books and papers up close to his glasses in the same attitude of languid exhaustion that Joyce affected in order to cover his very real inability to see clearly...
...Forum into near ecstasy with his celebrated opening words: "Je vous ai compris" (I have understood you). To the pieds noirs, it was a sign that De Gaulle accepted the idea of Algérie Française - and perhaps at the time he did. Yet to the dismay of the army and the fury of the settlers, De Gaulle eventually concluded that Algeria would have to be sacrificed for the greater glory of France...
Last week the whiff of shaky bank dealings-an uncomfortable reminder of the Bert Lanceaffair-caused dismay at the White House. Said Press Secretary Jody Powell: "What contacts Gregory had with the President have been in the relationship of a financial contributor." An aide to the First Lady made clear that she "does not consider Gregory a close friend." John White, Jimmy Carter's nominee as the Democratic National Committee chairman, declared that he "never heard of Gregory until TIME started asking about him." Immediately after, White phoned Gregory and took back an invitation to a D.N.C. finance council...