Word: dismays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Doubting that I'd get close to her again, I looked around for her crew, and soon discovered a talkative little lady of about 40, from Warner Brothers, who told me to my dismay that Carroll Baker is really Mrs. Jack Garfein, the mother of a bouncing baby daughter...
...Waldorf-Astoria, the King began his New York rounds. There were a visit and a speech at the United Nations, a meeting with the U.N.'s Dag Hammarskjold, a luncheon, reception, and dinner, all in the King's honor-and attended most of the time, to his dismay, by newsmen and photographers ("Come on. King, look this way; one more picture. King...
Premier Adnan Menderes expressed dismay, moved in tanks, and arrested 4,300 rioters. But many observers were convinced that someone had organized the riots, at least at the start-perhaps to divert attention from Turkey's growing economic distress. They pointed out that the rioters arrived in well-organized squads, equipped with crowbars and iron claws to pry open steel shop shutters, and that the government did not stop the riot until around midnight, when it had shown signs of becoming a general protest against the regime. Menderes suspended five newspapers for charging the government with failure to stop...
Gamely he tried to roll with each blow in the M.C.'s unctuous volley. The first guest was a Utah farmer who reminded Dempsey that they had sparred as boys. Dempsey stared in blank dismay as the man climbed into the ring, then went into a friendly clinch and clung as if for the bell. Next he was asked to recall the maxim his religious mother taught him. "Go to church and believe in God?" he guessed desperately. "Live by the golden rule and keep goin'," prompted Edwards firmly. "Keep goin'," repeated Dempsey. He kept goin...
Even when it does not lead to violence -as it has in Clinton, Tenn.-the process of desegregating Southern public schools creates problems that can dismay the most idealistic of men. Last week, after five months of investigating the effects of integration in Washington, D.C., the four Southern members of the House subcommittee headed by James Davis of Georgia issued a report that, for all its obvious bias and sensationalism, contained some shocking facts about what a Southern city can be up against. Chief findings...