Word: dismays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cries of dismay and anguish from businessmen last week forced the Government to back down on its requirement that taxpayers list all expense-account payments on 1957 tax returns (TIME, Nov. 18). The new line on 1957 tax form 1040 can be ignored, said Internal Revenue Service Commissioner Russell Harrington, "because the decision to include [it] was not made public until ten months of the tax year had passed, and thus had a retroactive effect." But Internal Revenue warned that the new requirement will definitely go into effect next year...
...Bowdoin coach, Bob Donham, and a vociferous crowd which nearly filled Sargent Gymnasium, looked on in dismay as the Crimson jumped to its early lead. Through the remainder of the half, the varsity added only two points to its margin, to lead, 31 to 18, at half-time. By the middle of the second half, deadly shooting had brought Bowdoin within three points of the Crimson, but the varsity smoothly pulled ahead to overcome the Bears...
...censorship ordinance is unconstitutional. They did not get far on either count. Chicago Police Commissioner Timothy J. O'Connor upheld his citizens' board, explained to a master in chancery that The Game of Love was obscene because he had become sexually aroused while watching it. To the dismay of the lawyers, both a district court and a circuit court of appeals sided with the censors...
...deft cartoon by Staffer Richard Q. Yardley showing the taxpayer apprehensively brushing his teeth while Tax Collector Tommy hovered outside his bathroom. D'Alesandro got the picture. "They'll say Tommy's charging them five cents every time they flush the John!" he bellowed in dismay...
...college officials expressed surprise and dismay at the news. The New York Times declared, "Let Locarno perish and the League of Nations fall, but the Big Three must and shall be preserved." It was not to be, however. W.J. Bingham '16, Director of Athletics "regretted the action" and pointed out what he felt lay at the root of Princeton's decision to break with Harvard. The "root" supposedly had to do with the college's feeling that the rivalry between the two colleges had become somewhat "aggravated" in the last few years. No one really understood what was meant...