Word: dismays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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News that Tolstoy's War and Peace was to be filmed drew cries of anxious alarm from such Britons as H. G. Wells, Compton Mackenzie, Eric Linklater, and produced in the London Times a letter: "With dismay we have heard that it is to be made into a cinematograph film. . . We would ask what degree of supervision, and by whom, is to be exercised. . . ." Promptly came the answer from Sir Alexander Korda, who snickered and rumbled in rich Magyarish English: "This Victorian phrase, 'with dismay' and 'cinematograph film' just slays me. You would think...
...confession is an earnest statement of his personal dilemma and that of others like him: "It is in no feeling of gladness that I thus set about revising my picture of the universe. On the contrary, I have the sense of resuming with the greatest alarm and dismay a burden which in the first flush of my agnostical freedom I so gladly laid aside...
...Divorce. The report came in; Nelson saw it with dismay. He asked Senator Truman to hold it back, protested that since the Committee had begun its sleuthing-in fact, even as Guthrie went away mad -conversion had ceased to be a problem. Civilian production had long since been sliced down, although consumers had not yet really felt it much. But Senator Truman, who likes sensations, was adamant. For greater efficiency in the future, he argued, WPB needed a shaking up anyhow. He issued his report...
...years were telling. Never before had his pen retained its flourish to the last of these interminable signatures; never before had he strutted so jauntily through the crowd, shoving Coop agents aside with arm free of the dreaded writers' cramp. He grinned broadly when he remembered the look of dismay which had covered the faces of the members of the War Service committee when he had handed them back their Questionnaire, blank and neatly torn through the middle. He'd done his bit: the first three hours of an ARP course. What more could-they want...
Next day the Jap had two more air-raid alarms, and this week he still hissed with dismay. He sacked the chief of the home command, Lieut. General Akira Muto, and he filled the air with illogical or contradictory blasts which only seemed to add to the magnitude of the bombers' success. Contradicting his story that only schools and hospitals had been hit, a Tokyo dispatch (via Berlin) announced that the Government would pay to rebuild the industrial plants that had been damaged. More important, he said that the raiders were twin-motored North American B-25s and that...