Word: dismays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that such a meeting has dangers as well as opportunities and the biggest danger of all is the danger that hopes will be raised so high that they can't possibly be realized, and then . . . either there'll be an open disillusionment and a feeling of dismay on the part of the people and a feeling that . . . the only alternative is war ... Or then there's the possibility that, in an effort to avoid that danger, the heads of government meeting there might arrive at sort of an appearance of agreement under ambiguous words where there...
...discouraged the reactionaries until he became governor. Then he announced: "I guess the state is just going to have to get used to the fact that I'm no Joe McCarthy." In 1948, when Earl Warren was the vice-presidential candidate, Goodie decided his time had come. His dismay on the day after the election was acute. "If you think Tom Dewey and Governor Warren are disappointed," he wailed, "think of me. I had the furniture in the governor's mansion rearranged a dozen times." In 1950 Knight, spurred on by his right-wing supporters, announced that...
...Moines, Iowa. "More was learned about women's uniforms than had been discovered in the past six months of research . . . When WAACs walked or marched, the skirts climbed well above the knee unless a desperate grip on the skirt was substituted for the required arm swing. Shrieks of dismay arose as the women tried on the WAAC caps, uncharitably christened 'Hobby hats.' " It soon became apparent that the WAAC difficulties were far more serious than had at first been thought. Items...
About fifteen years ago the Ibis atop the Lampoon building took one of its sporadic off-season flgihts. It reappeared a few evenings later on a stage when Blackstone the Magician lifted a silk cloth. A cry of dismay was heard in the balcony as thirty humorists, lured to the theater by free tickets, scrambled toward the steps to retrieve the bird. Backstage at the Colonial Theatre last Saturday, Blackstone recalled the theft and chuckled "We should do it again...
Confident Candidate. Last week, to the Távora camp's dismay, the press found out all about the under-the-table deal, reported it in screaming headlines to a scandalized nation. Capable Finance Minister Eugenio Gudin indignantly resigned, and the Minister of Transport and Public Works followed him out. Gudin's departure sent inflation-battered Brazil's cruzeiro sliding downward...