Word: dismays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Given that decision, a Tory Chancellor dedicated to free enterprise might normally have been expected to concentrate his fire on governmental spending, i.e., on the welfare state. Yet to the dismay of his strongest supporters, Butler's heaviest blows fell on private spending. His budget called...
...intense desire to restore the land to richness, came along. Joe is a living contradiction to the widespread-and wrong-explanation of U.S. farm productivity: the notion that the U.S. has "new" and naturally hyper-fertile soil. Joe successfully farms acres that would make a Polish peasant blanch with dismay. Yet he devoutly believes that his rocky slopes "can be made to grow good crops-just as good as the flat land, or maybe even better, with enough work. I'll make them grow everything they can, and I'll take care of them." Taking care of them...
...three men have moved up directly from the vice-presidency to the White House by election: John Adams, Thomas Jefferson and Martin Van Buren The last of those moves was made 120 years before Nixon would be trying to make his But such precedents are not the kind to dismay Richard Nixon. He has risen fast and far in politics, to his present high role as acting captain of the Eisenhower team. He aims eventually to be captain of the team in his own right...
This week Hall & Co. had to face the very definite prospect that the President, even if he makes a quick recovery, will not run. The possibility threw the Republican Party into deep dismay; the reality conceivably could cause an intraparty Donnybrook to rival any nomination struggle in G.O.P. history. If he was receding from the political picture, President Eisenhower probably could not pick the nominee, but he could have important influence on his party's choice...
...fascinated other 19th century novelists, including Balzac: the drama of a society in which the aristocracy is withering, while the middle class and even the peasantry are elbowing their way into the mirrored halls. The book's hero is a harddriving, shrewd peasant who grows rich, to the dismay of the seedy local gentry. The story is chiefly concerned with the battle between tough, energetic Mastro-don Gesualdo and that gentry-with the rich ones who connive to block his designs on their dwindling lands, with the impoverished ones who sneer at his peasant origins while scheming to trap...