Word: dismays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...expressed its "disillusionment" and "dismay" with the General's campaign, and applauded Stevenson for "developing detailed, objective treatments of many . . . topics...
...Revere, the taxpayers' federation loudly sounded the alarm. Led by Boston's Post, the press took up the shout. Riding the hubbub of popular anger, Congressman Christian Herter, Republican candidate for governor, dashed off a series of open letters to his Democratic rival, Governor Paul Dever: widespread "dismay and disgust" cried Herter, made it imperative for Dever to call a special legislative session to repeal the "sneak" benefits before they went into effect. The Republican case is somewhat hurt by the fact that the state senate which approved the pension bill is controlled by Republicans...
Dean Moser this year finds to her dismay that for the 780 spaces, there are more than 780 girls reurning. The surplus is not the result of miscalculation, because there can be no calculating the Radcliffe girls. Dean Moser points out that the college expects a few students to withdraw every summer, and thereby permit others to take up the space...
...educated . . . were voicing their own defeatist skepticism about America; and listening to them in the months after the Korean intervention, one realized with dismay how little confidence there was among the forward-looking of our worthiness or our capacity to defend the freedom which we claimed as our heritage; and to rouse others to defend their freedom, if they had it, or to win it, if they lacked it, side by side with...
...cheerers were silent with dismay when the first heat ended. Soon after Miss Great Lakes II conked out for good with a cracked gear box, Slo-mo IV lost a propeller and also dropped out. On the sixth 3-mile lap, Slo-mo V Driver Lou Fageol knew his boat was a goner: water spewing ominously from the exhaust meant that a cylinder had blown. Detroit's Miss Pepsi won the heat at a speed of 101.0242 m.p.h. in the fastest boat race of all time...