Word: dismays
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...millions of families who tried to buy or sell a house last year learned to their dismay, mortgage credit is something like an umbrella that collapses when it rains. Three times since 1950, the output of new housing has dived after the Federal Reserve tightened up on money to thwart inflation. No other major U.S. industry is quite so vulnerable to swings in monetary policy. Last year the money squeeze gave housing its worst setback since World...
...less grim was Cairo, which seemed seized at once by confusion, hysteria and dismay. Unshaven soldiers guarded major intersections and the Nile bridges. Walls were still plastered with tattered victory posters depicting the Egyptian eagle pouncing on the viper of Israel. For no apparent reason, there was a half-hour air-raid alarm during the lunch hour one day. Newsstands hawked such paperbacks as The Defense of Towns and Hoitse-to-House Fighting. The government warned that watches, cigarette packs and fountain pens found in the streets were probably booby traps dropped by Israeli planes. Only one of the city...
...activists of '67 leave college with a far more profound sense of the limitations to political action, in many cases a feeling of dismay and disillusionment. Some of them have moved from dissatisfaction with one aspect of the system to a much, broader, radical critique. But even those who accept the present social machinery for decision-making have become keenly aware of the compromises and sacrifices which must be made for the sake of "effectiveness." Among both radicals and moderates, there is a greater appreciation of the strength of forces resisting change, the ambiguities of problems and the failure...
...Careless. In any case, the investigations-and the rumors-will continue, much to the dismay of the Amex and the other exchanges. They are getting bruised mainly because many brokers have grown all too careless with their customers-and their customer's men. Last week, to help brokers spot telltale signs of manipulations in the future, the Amex began issuing computerized weekly and monthly reports, which show how actively each of its 573 member firms have been trading in each of its 1,060 listed stocks...
...Security Council. Instead, to almost everyone's astonishment, he used narrowly legal reasoning to order the U.N. troops pulled out -without even consulting the Security Council or the seven nations that contribute to the peace-keeping force. With that action, which was met with incredulity and dismay in Western capitals, Thant and the U.N. just about forfeited any effective peace-keeping role. Nasser himself may have been surprised, but Thant's move left him no choice; he had to move in or seriously lose face...