Word: dismays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...response to growing dismay in the United Nations over their action in Indonesia, the Dutch have reiterated their plea, "Give us more time and more credit for good will." The patience of the West, of the East, and of the Indonesian Republicans, however, was brought to an end by the Dutch "police action" on December 19 against Jokjakarta, the Republican capital. Since then, willingness to allow the Netherlands to find a solution for her former colony has vanished...
...World War II veterans will not reach retirement age until around 1990, and to many of them Demagogue Rankin's bill simply meant filling up the gravy boat again for World War I servicemen. Such veterans' groups as the V.F.W. and American Veterans Committee howled in dismay. Even the American Legion leadership, which has sometimes mistaken the public treasury for its own, remained guardedly silent...
...rank-&-file of the Republican Party is essentially rightist, conservative, believes in state rights and the responsibility of the individual; decries New Dealism in all its forms; looks with dismay on the growing interference of the Federal Government in business, and with foreboding on the pandering of the Government to the labor unions...
Scurrying for Cover. Last week some 150 politicos and others dutifully showed up at Manhattan's gaudy Copacabana nightclub. So, unfortunately, did two reporters. Next day there were wild cries of dismay as the distinguished guests scurried for cover. The reporters had spotted five judges of the state Supreme Court, at least three other judges, a U.S. Congressman, a whole slate of Tammany luminaries headed by Hugo E. Rogers, president of the borough of Manhattan...
About ten years ago, Clifford Odets, having apparently written himself out of the Bronx, went to Hollywood. This was a cause for dismay among the people who hailed him as the Golden Boy of the Thirties, the man who brought a fresh, now and vibrant voice to the theater, a voice that spoke out for the underprivileged. But the author of "Waiting for Lefty," "Awake and Sing," and "Golden Boy" remained in Hollywood, writing scenarios and letting out an occasional yelp about "every motion-picture being cut on the stone floor of a Wall Street bank." This was paltry assurance...