Word: dismays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Roving Eye. To his own mild dismay, young Boswell was always aspiring to virtue and yielding to vice. In church, his mind and eye kept roving toward pretty women ("What a curious, inconsistent thing is the mind of man!"), and London prostitutes found him an easy conquest. What seemed at first a discreet affair with an actress brought him down with a venereal disease that kept him under treatment for five weeks. But nothing could discourage his sensual appetite for long, and the Journal is thick with accounts of his cheap and hasty liaisons. Boswell had been .in London less...
...tells with happy candor the story of the resultant uproar. The few supporters "who thought I wasn't so bad" were "drowned out by the chorus of dismay . . . Just how such a pipsqueak as I turned out to be could also become a major scandal was one of the incongruities of the episode." The other incongruity was a Senate committee going into stitches over George's testimony and ending up by confirming him. He quit after one unspectacular year in RFC, and settled down again to his private enterprises.* Says George modestly: "My record . . . was the record...
...well aware of the problem, said Perón, and could appreciate the housewives' concern. But he wanted to point out that the housewives themselves were not entirely blameless. On his way to work every morning, he noticed with dismay the amount of garbage piled up on city doorsteps. "Argentines," he said, "throw one and a half million head of cattle into the garbage can every year . . . It is easy to see that the bread and meat thrown away daily in Buenos Aires would easily feed any European city for a week...
...Peace?" Petition collectors, who had experienced a moment's dismay, swarmed over the U.S. with renewed zeal. The document they flourished was whomped up at a meeting of a Communist-sponsored something called the "World Committee of Peace Partisans" in Stockholm last March. Innocently worded, it simply condemned atomic bombing as aggression; it did not mention other kinds of aggression-like the Korean. At ballparks, in subways and factories, on street corners, the partisans solicited signatures. "Who isn't for peace? I'll sign," was the reaction of the guileless, the dupes, the muddled. Day after...
Somehow, the incredulous police surmised, Long had managed to commit murder, automobile theft and possibly abduction under the very noses of the FBI. Portlanders gasped with dismay and wondered how it could have happened. The taciturn men of the FBI offered only an embarrassed, partial explanation-they had seen Long drive off with the carpenter, feared they would be spotted if they followed them into the wide-open countryside, left Long uncovered from midnight...