Word: dismays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since she burst into their comic-strip world in 1956, the Texas teen-age tomboy named Poteet has brought both joy and dismay to tall-in-the-cockpit Colonel Steve Canyon and Cartoonist Milton Caniff. Last week Caniff acknowledged that he took Poteet out of the strip (607 papers) in early October because of the problems she posed. For one thing, she was upstaging Steve with her giddy flair. For another, he feared she would become sullied by association with another youthful heroine of a different reputation : Lolita...
...Berlin will not be intimidated," said Brandt. Without consulting anybody -or having to-Brandt made himself a spokesman for Berlin. Bouncing back from momentary dismay at Secretary Dulles' remark that the Allies might accept East German control officials as "agents" of the Russians, he cried: "We do not release our Allies from responsibility to defend Berlin with force." If the Allies soften their position, said Brandt, "the West will end up like an artichoke, stripped of its influence, leaf by leaf." Asked if West Berlin wanted to become a free state, he snapped: "Another Danzig? Never...
...smoothly embarked on the international operatic circuit. In her rise to the top she has experienced only one real failure-a performance of Traviata at La Scala in 1951 in which her voice broke twice on high notes. The audience of rabid Tebaldi fans "exclaimed in wonder and dismay," as she puts it, and Renata took to her room for two months. But with characteristic stubbornness, she then accepted an invitation from the San Carlo Opera in Naples to sing nine successive performances of Traviata, and earned nine successive ovations...
...caught in the midst of a fight if he could help it-characteristically tried to avoid trouble by keeping these orders to himself. Relentlessly, De Gaulle forced his hand. One morning last week an aide came into Salan's office to find the general shaking with dismay. "Paris," wailed Salan, "has published the directive...
...Faculty sponsor of the Harvard-Radcliffe Committee to Study Disarmament I read with dismay this morning the account of the self-styled "amusingly engineered coup" which, in the fashion of Communist seizure of organizations, turned the Committee into its opposite. This kind of a perversion of democratic processes seems to me neither amusing nor tolerable, whether it be carried out by revolutionary or by reactionary intriguers...