Word: dismays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...flow of information from the Seychelles) insisted that their two emissaries were still "explaining" the proposed constitution to Makarios. If Makarios were to accept the plan, with reservations, and utter some noises unfavorable to continued terrorism, the British indicated, they would return him to Cyprus. Last week, to the dismay of the Greeks, the U.S. State Department put in a word for the British proposal as "a first step" toward a peaceably negotiated settlement...
Encouraged by the Nationalist Chinese legation, Viet Nam's race-proud Chinese almost to a man ignored the naturalization order and launched a campaign of economic retaliation. Rice exports, one of South Viet Nam's chief sources of foreign exchange, dwindled to nothing, and to the dismay of Viet Nam's farmers, the domestic price of rice fell to its lowest level in years. Large-scale shipments of Chinese capital to Hong Kong sent the price of gold and black-market dollars soaring in Viet Nam. But stubborn Ngo Dinh Diem had no intention of backing down...
...involuntary whistles of dismay broke the silence. The drop Macmillan reported was the biggest for any single month in the past five years, and it brought Britain's dollar reserves to their lowest level ($1.9 billion) since December 1952. The cause of this fiscal hemorrhage was self-evident: the disastrous attack on Egypt had weakened international confidence in the future of the British economy, led traders all over the world to exchange sterling for dollars in anticipation of devaluation of the pound...
...treasurer began to report, and he reported that there was absolutely no way of forcing people to pay up on pledged contributions, because no list had been made and the pledge cards had been mailed back to the prospective donors. This caused some dismay, but he quickly offered a proposal, "If you know someone who pledged and hasn't paid...
Prokofiev: Love for Three Oranges (members of the Slovenian National Opera conducted by Bogo Leskovich; Epic, 2 LPs). The fairy-tale opera whose failure when first produced by the Chicago Opera Association in 1921-22 caused Prokofiev to leave the U.S. in dismay and disgust. (Twenty-seven years later it was a big success at the New York City Opera.) This recording is in Russian, but the performance is high-spirited and technically brilliant...