Word: dismays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...produced a decrepit volume of Shakespeare's works and began to fondle the pages with fanatic tenderness. In his infrequent moments of coherence, Vag could distinguish such things as "Take you me for a sponge, my lord?" and "O, come away! My soul is full of discord and dismay." All during the lecture he nodded and frowned and bowed and articulated to himself. When the instructor read a particularly stirring passage, the little man would shut his book, lean back in his chair, and with eyes closed, would sway from side to side like a cobra, hypnotized by the music...
...Catholics and as logical Latins, Italians viewed with dismay last week the physical retreat before advancing Bolshevism of the 118,000 Germans who abruptly left the Baltic States on orders of the Führer (see p. 21). Even the carefully controlled press began to express this feeling...
...which continues slowly reaching all objectives without shots or ultimatums. . . . After seven centuries of battle against Slav influence, the German minorities which acted as sentinels of northeast Europe now retreat, giving up their parts to Russians. . . . The mass exodus of Germans from the Baltic is viewed with feelings of dismay...
...letter to the "dear brethren" of the commission in charge of the Concordat, Bishop Manning urged that this instrument, which is bringing "apprehension and dismay to great numbers of our people and clergy," be dropped entirely. The Bishop urged four objections...
...comprehensiveness, presents a special problem to the small "faculty within a faculty" that is charged with its administration. The large number of freshmen enrolled, never faced with such a course before, approach the problem of note-taking from countless angels. This multiplicity of methods is no cause for dismay except that it too often includes one disastrous plan; not taking any notes at all. This practice, and that of taking too voluminous reading notes, are the chief butts of faculty criticism. No attempt is made to change a man's individual style of notes unless they are unintelligible or illegible...