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Word: dismaying (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...velocity. Says one staffer: "The whole thing is a mystery." But the technical complexities of carrying out money policy are only one problem: whatever Miller decides to do, he is bound to ruffle either liberals or conservatives. It would take only minimal bad luck or misjudgment for him to dismay both...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: New Act, Old Woes at the Fed | 1/16/1978 | See Source »

...household and dance school in the capable hands of her husband and accompanies Emilia to New York, intent on supervising her climb to stardom. The impressionable protege soon takes a strong liking to her mentor Emma (who happens to be Emilia's godmother), much to her mother's dismay. Deedee has enough reason to be jealous of Emma for professional reasons without a twist of emotion-charged rivalry for Emma's affection...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Of Roads Not Taken... | 1/11/1978 | See Source »

Thus far the government has been reluctant to crack down heavily on the samizdat publications for fear of stirring up even more popular unrest and making martyrs of the underground writers. Polish officials dismiss the dissident writing as insignificant, but they regard its proliferation with dismay. Earlier this month, police confiscated 450 copies of Opinia in the Warsaw apartment of one of the journal's distributors. But that put only a modest dent in the magazine's circulation. About 5,000 copies of every issue are printed, and each copy is believed to have 20 to 30 attentive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISM: Two Victories for the Word | 12/12/1977 | See Source »

...with a growing feeling of dismay, alongside a real sense of amusement to see in your story "Was Vatican I Rigged?" [Nov. 14] what a Catholic priest will do to explain away his loss of faith. Perhaps Father August Hasler believes that the Second Vatican Council was the only true council in church history. And so now begins the task of pulling apart Vatican I. Then perhaps he'll start on the Council of Trent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 5, 1977 | 12/5/1977 | See Source »

After going to the Business School field the Quincy contingent showed up at Soldiers Field a half hour late, to the dismay of the Crimson ruggers, who had been lazing around in the warm morning...

Author: By Marc M. Sadowsky, | Title: Ruggers Outplay Quincy, 11-3 | 10/25/1977 | See Source »

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