Word: dismays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...arms, to his feet demanding to know just how much rearmament would be cut. "I am not poaching upon the ground which my right honorable friend, the Prime Minister, is to cover at length tomorrow," retorted Butler. To the joy of the critics on the Opposition benches and the dismay of the performer's friends on the government benches, it became clear that Rab Butler had really nothing new to say. The Laborites jeered and badgered him with questions plump and juicy as an overripe tomato. But this time, brickbats came also from the government's side...
With classic cadences MacArthur held up, point by point, the Democratic "failures." The people, he said, "view with dismay...
...President Lowell's innovations were contagious, the football team, with its new fisher-Daley stratagems, bared its muscles and thrashed hapless Middlebury College by 68 to 0 for the largest Harvard score since 1891. Undergraduate jubiliation, however, slowly died and turned to dismay as Holy Cross, Dartmouth and Princeton drubbed the Crimson on successive weekends. In the gloom overemphasis in college football. Mother Advocate, sensing crusade in the making, trudged a few yards up Plympton Street to borrow the cudgel. "Football" she said in her October issue, "may actually become professional...
...spring term began, undergraduates had a new aid in choosing their courses. The CRIMSON published its first "Confidential Guide to Undergraduate Courses" to the glee and dismay of undergraduates and instructors respectively...
...every last newsman did turn out at the press conference in Abilene's Plaza Theater, along with some 200-odd Ike supporters. To the dismay of newsmen, the supporters applauded every.time Ike handled a tough one, although applause at a press conference is frowned...