Word: dismays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...diverse as the Liberal Union and the Young Republicans would produce. As a result, there were charges and counter-charges which could only discredit the Council and hinder the cause of academic freedom. Were the ruckus stirred by a meeting on parietal rules, it would be cause enough for dismay. But on issue like the Fifth Amendment and the loyalty of Harvard teachers, such bungling can be disastrous...
...Federal Power Commission a power it did not seek and does not want: authority to control natural gas prices charged by "independent" producers, i.e., those who are not affiliated with interstate pipeline companies. In the gas-producing states of Texas, Oklahoma and New Mexico, the reaction was one of dismay. Regulatory efforts by those states are aimed at conserving natural resources, and prices have a direct effect on conservation policies. At one time gas prices were so low that the gas was wasted; the expense of gathering it was more than the selling price. Thus, the states feared that federal...
...Landing at U.S.-leased Kindley Air Force Base, the Duke, technically the airport commander's landlord, graciously thanked him for the courtesy of his runway. That afternoon, during a round of nine parishes and two towns, the Duke lost his equerries at a garden party, asked in mock dismay: "Where the devil's my escort?" Next day, the royal plane set down at Jamaica's tourist-fringed Montego Bay. The Queen was presented by Jamaica's Chief Minister William Alexander Bustamante with a hand-printed address of welcome, containing a wishful hint at the old dream...
...There can be but one choice: Joseph McCarthy-to my intense dismay and revulsion...
...demanded. Edwards promptly sold his castle and built Misia a 100-ft. yacht. Caruso acclaimed the yacht's acoustics perfect, and tirelessly sang Neapolitan songs whenever he was a guest. "Enough!" Misia finally cried. "I can't bear that any more!" Eyes popping, Caruso exploded in dismay: "I, Caruso, the great, the incomparable Caruso! I! Princes have knelt before me, begging me to open my mouth, and you ask me to shut it!" But he shut...