Word: dismays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...businessman's expense. Nor did Congress pass any law punitive to business. It roundly endorsed the Government's exit from the synthetic-rubber industry, but it dragged its feet on other Administration attempts to take the Government out of competition with private enterprise. To the dismay of many industrialists, e.g., Southern cotton manufacturers, it raised the minimum wage from 75? to $1 ; to the relief of most employers it postponed a boost in Social Security benefits. It extended the 52% corporate tax, but most businessmen were in sympathy with the purpose behind that extension: to cut federal deficit...
Portents & Protocol. The West listened with an uneasiness that was not yet dismay. The Russians, though they said it in friendly fashion, were clearly indicating that they have no intention of discussing Germany until Adenauer goes to Moscow -or, perhaps, until Adenauer is dead...
...first comprehensive estimate of this year's farm crop was announced last week by the Department of Agriculture with a note of dismay. Though wheat, cotton and corn acreage had been cut in the hope of trimming some 5% from the huge U.S. farm surplus, this year's crop is still expected to be the second biggest in history, and the biggest since record 1948. Most farmers have lived up to their word, cut their acreage of "basic" crops as directed. But farmers, who have seen their products decline 23.5% in price in four years...
...eardrum-rupturing explosion, then another, sent blinding clouds of smoke and dust billowing into the air. Jagged pieces of steel ripped into scores of bodies. Cries of pain and terror rang out. A young woman stared in silent dismay at her Weeding leg stump. As survivors scattered in panic, a few more navy planes roared in low over the plaza. Two more bombs burst. From upper windows of the nearby Navy Ministry, machine guns sprayed the Pink House...
...Harriman joined Sen. Humphrey in buttering up the Hearst newspapers. "Ave" appointed Hearst Corporation President and McCarthy's great pal, Richard Berlin, to the Saratoga Springs Commission. The job is unimportant and unpaid, but there is some honor attached to it. Words fail me to express my dismay and disgust at such hypocrisy. Has Harriman so quickly forgotten what happened to Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. when he lost his liberal support by playing up to its enemies? As for Adlai. he is intellectually far superior to any other candidate, but the reiteration of his uncertainty concerning his plans reminds...