Word: dismaying
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Students reacted with dismay to the change in policy...
...fact, there is hearteningly widespread dismay over a white boy suspended from school five times in the past month for wearing a buckle with a symbol of the Confederate battle flag. Says Herman Wright, who is black and a former head of the school board: "I have never seen anything like this outright display by a student with deep, deep convictions about race...
...when it came to writing, certain tensions arose. "He discovered much to his dismay that I know how to write and he didn't," Professor Kishlansky says. "I write for a living. Of course I should be better than a high school student. At first Matt denied it, but ultimately he figured out it was to his advantage...to learn from me," Kishlansky wryly reminisces...
...regardless of class size, but with the most populated courses, this principle can be taken to an extreme. In a most egregious incident, two seniors approached Hankins shortly before the final exam. These two lost souls revealed that they had neither sectioned nor taken the midterm. To their own dismay, they needed the Renaissance course to graduate and threw themselves at Hankin's mercy. "There are always some people who get lost. They slipped through the cracks somehow," Hankins says...
...recent column (Opinion, Feb. 4), Susannah B. Tobin expresses dismay over the trend toward an increasing confluence of church and state. In particular, she cites the recently successfully plea of Pope John Paul II to commute the death sentence of a Missouri criminal. Like Tobin, I appreciate the outcome of the papal gesture but do not believe that religious leaders should determine political policy by sole virtue of their sectarian positions...