Word: dismays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hypochondriac purists will still have a large supply of pessimistic dismay and insomnia to keep them happy, for the first United Nations meeting on American soil dealt inadequately or not at all with many international sore spots. Franco Spain received only a routine rebuke; the veto is still too powerful a weapon in U.N. procedure; and trusteeship questions are still undecided. But the credits outweigh the debits, and the recent General Assembly Session may have charted a road on which nations can travel together in peace...
...policy toward Russia. I would have thought it wrong in any event, but I had the advantage of recognizing its errors with particular vividness because I was in Berlin when it was made. I saw the uses which Soviet propaganda made of it and the disappointment and dismay it spread among democratic forces in Europe and in Germany. They had just been tremendously heartened by Secretary Byrnes's address in Stuttgart. . . . Europe's democratic forces are behind Byrnes and not Wallace. The confusion in American liberalism, of which the Wallace speech is the symbol, must be regarded...
...Jesus takes Mary the sister of Lazarus as his Queen at the ancient rite during which his cultist followers lame him and anoint him King; but to everyone's dismay he announces his New Law of chastity...
When Comptroller General Lindsay C. Warren opened the RFC's books last fall for a routine audit, he threw up his hands in dismay. Things were in such a mess, he later told Congressmen, that no one could tell for sure how much money the huge lending agency had on hand, where its money was invested, how much it had coming in, or how much it owed. Last week, after a sharp rebuke from the House Committee on Expenditures in the Executive Departments, which upheld Lindsay Warren, the agency finally got started on the job of setting its records...
Totalitarian dismay in the face of a free press is not confined to Communist countries. Last week the head of ^ the rightist Greek Government, fat, cigar-smoking Premier Constantin Tsaldaris, was in London and gave a press conference. A correspondent confronted him with the UNRRA statement that supplies to Greece would be stopped because of political discrimination in handing them out, whereat Tsaldaris lost his temper and shouted: "Iff a lie, it's a slander! What right have you got to ask about the internal affairs of Greece?" The reporters began chanting "Freedom of the press!" and the Premier...