Word: dismays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Voice officials themselves were almost voiceless with dismay at the committee's action, but after a time they announced bravely that, despite the slash, they would go ahead with Operation Vagabond, a new plan to install powerful radio stations on fast-going freighters. The ships, by being able to move about, would beam a U.S. "campaign of truth" into Communist countries despite Soviet jamming tactics...
Hayden burgeons, but he still has a lot more to learn about the wide world. Some of it he learns with pain and dismay from Professor Lorenzo Lundsgard, lately of Hollywood. A new, if feebler, edition of that pious fraud, Elmer Gantry, with a touch of Berzelius Windrip, the magnificent Lorenzo plans a Technicolored crusade to convert America to the gospels of Culture and Leadership, meanwhile scooting across Europe and sweeping up historical tidbits as with a vacuum cleaner. Lorenzo also sweeps up Olivia. Hayden falls into the eager arms of Roxy Eldritch, a freckled, redheaded home-town girl with...
Many of us, disappointed and disheartened by the vacillating and muddling of the 81st Congress, went to the polls in high hopes of rectifying that situation. Now we find, to our dismay, that all we have seemingly accomplished has been to further the power of such petty and irresponsible men as Senator McCarthy, who seem interested only in furthering their own selfish, political interests...
Your Dean Acheson piece reaches new, dizzier peaks of tendentiousness . . . Your determination to look facts in the face without seeing them will also confirm European alarm and dismay at. the insane irresponsibility of American politics...
...Washington Post paused to consider a phenomenon that was causing more & more dismay among newsmen and their readers: the confusing and sometimes contradictory character of General MacArthur's official bulletins...