Word: dismays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...according to happy Dodger supporters, it was now just a matter of the Dodgers' winning margin. Even Brooklyn Manager Charley Dressen, after watching his team win its sixth straight and stretch its early-season lead to 6½ games, abandoned the manager's traditional attitude of dour dismay to admit: "The team that beats us can win the pennant-but nobody is going to beat...
After three weeks of play in baseball's Jubilee Year,* the experts (i.e., the baseball writers) were shaking their heads in mild dismay. Two teams which were almost unanimous choices for the second division, the St. Louis Cardinals and the Washington Senators, were bouncing around the top of the National and American Leagues. The New York Giants, dark horse choice for the National League pennant, sweated out an eleven-game losing streak before they finally beat the Dodgers, 8-5, and began their drive to get out of the cellar...
...apathy that exists among the American people today, it is a feeling of ignorance in regard to the present world crisis, coupled with dismay and astonishment at the utter confusion and lack of leadership in Washington...
...citizen, Senator Lodge had been taking comfort in the belief that the U.S., with the world's greatest production facilities and a strategic air arm able to pepper Russia with atomic bombs, possessed a forbidding deterrent to Soviet attack. "The cold brutal fact," he had found to his dismay, "is that the U.S. does not have air supremacy, air superiority or anything like it ... On balance, air superiority as well as land superiority lies with the Soviet Union...
...sold its rights to a subsidiary of Warner Bros.-and thence to Manhattan. Together with three partners (including Idea-Man Selwyn), Duke finally managed to buy the movie rights to one version of the song* for $1,000. Then he registered the title, for a prospective movie. To his dismay, he found that another Hollywood producer had beaten him to the draw. Fifteen minutes after the general's speech, Darryl Zanuck had registered the same title...