Word: dismays
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...There's not much we can do," he said. "We don't have a counterplan to take up the slack. All Harvard can do is to express its dismay at this decision...
...different. "The public was alternately bored by the emptiness of Miami Beach and disgusted by the disorder and violence of Chicago," he noted. "Both of these conventions told just about all there is to tell about what's wrong with the convention system itself." If the public dismay is reflected in Congress, a proposal like Nelson's might well have a fighting chance for passage...
...dismay of television producers, all touring golf pros do not look like Arnold Palmer or Doug Sanders. In fact, a great many of them roundly defy the pat promotional image of the lean, handsome man-about-the-links. Stoutness is not only stylish on the tour these days, it seems to be a prerequisite for success. Witness Jack Nicklaus, Julius Boros and Lee Trevino, who have together won five tournaments this year and a combined total of $391,802. It is enough to make Minnesota Fats want to trade in his cue for a niblick...
...other hand, the Organization of African Unity, which can agree on few things, has gone on record as supporting Nigerian sovereignty over Biafra. Its members, the national leaders of Black Africa, can only view the precedent of tribal breakaway with profound dismay, for each must cope with tribal divisions in his own country. "It was the Congo and Tshombe yesterday, and it is Nigeria and Ojukwu today," warns Gowon. "Who knows what African country will be the next victim...
...these motives. But the generals, aware that the President, on strictly military grounds, had actually drawn the line at the 20th parallel, well into Ho Chi Minh territory, promptly bombed to the northern limits of their authority. Washington-not to say a great number of Americans-was paralyzed with dismay, and the White House was obliged to issue a clarifying statement...