Word: dismays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...political forces of right, center and left. The right soon captured Lonardi and sold him a policy of appeasing Peronistas in the hope of forming them into a right-wing political party. Item: Lonardi refused to take La Prensa away from the C.G.T. Other revolutionary leaders watched in rising dismay. One Sunday afternoon two months after Lonardi took office, the revolutionaries gently eased him out and installed Aramburu, who, as army chief of staff, had been impressively deperonizing the officer corps. President Aramburu never saw his plotting companion again. Lonardi died within four months of a cancer that had begun...
...reader may recognize a few mildly tentative efforts in this direction in the last few stories in this book. They started out to be satirical; they mostly failed dismally to be satirical; largely, I presume--I often observe it to my dismay and confess it to my shame--because I still have much too soft a corner for the old land. For all I know I may still be a besotted romantic! Some day I may manage to dislike my countrymen sufficiently to satirize them; but I gravely doubt it--curse them...
...cries of professed astonishment and dismay rang through Europe. There was talk of "British desertion," and Britain's NATO representative reported that NATO officials were "shocked." A typical French reaction came from the left-wing Franc-Tireur: "England has ceased to be a power. She is becoming an island once more. She is tiptoeing out of a political system built in Europe around NATO." Defense Minister Bourges-Maunoury called reliance on atomic arms a "facile policy," and not one for France, which prefers to think there will always be conventional wars. (European nations worried by British troop withdrawals from...
JERUSALEM, March 19--The open threat of a new war emerged today from Israel's dismay at Gaza Strip and Aqaba Gulf developments since she turned over those battle-won territories to the United Nations...
From the unsolicited recipients of this largesse came howls of dismay. Cried Chicago's Mayor Richard J. Daley: "We don't want them here. Why don't they go to Moscow?" His feelings were echoed by Ralph Helstein, president of the United Packinghouse Workers, whose 120,000 membership is more than one-third Negro: "The Communist Party is about to go out of business. There's no place for it in Chicago or any other place in America." And from Manhattan's Dave Dubinsky, who had been individually applauded by the Communists in convention, came...