Word: dismays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Haskel, killer for hire, was a mighty surprised man. He had been paid to ride up to South Pass, Wyo. and plug a troublesome cowboy named Lincoln Bradway. But when the two men drew and fired, Gunman Haskel "uttered a loud yell of pain and dismay . . . Clapping his hands to his big paunch he sank to his knees, swayed and slowly collapsed a few yards from the sidewalk...
...best he could to build up competition. Hunt made available to the Government some of Alcoa's key patents, thus paving the way for Reynolds Metals Co. and Henry Kaiser to buy and lease a majority of the war-built aluminum plants. But to Roy Hunt's dismay, nothing he could do was enough to satisfy the trustbusters; in 1948 they marched back into court to demand that Alcoa's properties be carved up on the grounds that it still monopolized aluminum ingot production. Last week, at long last, it was Alcoa's turn...
...least once a month, and twice a month in season, the magazine Vogue works itself into a well-bred frenzy over the American woman, clucking with dismay over her shortcomings, chirruping with alarm over her sluggishness, shrilly urging her on to greater & greater miracles of attenuated charm...
...ball and swung. The ball whistled down the middle of the mist-shrouded fairway and disappeared from view. Sam pursed his lips, blinked his grey, button-bright eyes and was satisfied. Then bantam Ben Hogan, the little man who had come back to haunt him, stepped forward. To the dismay of 4,500 assembled witnesses, Ben hit one that hooked crazily and landed in a ditch out of bounds...
...have been following with dismay as well as amusement the Student Council's resolutions to prohibit undergraduate organizations from having "discrimination" clauses in their constitutions...