Word: dismays
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Roosevelt? At first, some Westerners gasped in dismay at Mrs. Gandhi's election. They remembered her as the darling of India's left-wingers,the friend of Firebrand Krishna Menon, and the Prime Minister's willful daughter who stamped her sandaled feet and threatened to report hecklers in her audience to her pitaji (daddy). At 48, Indira has largely outgrown that sort of thing. The left-wingers may still be enthusiastic about her, but she is better balanced. Menon seldom comes to call, and Indira keeps her temper reined...
...flatfooted dismay with which enlightened liberal opinion in this country and Britain first greeted the coup in Nigeria is no doubt due to the complexity of politics in that country. An enlightened liberal who has mastered the names of Nigeria's four regions, two electoral coalitions, four major parties (there are lots of little ones), three major tribes (not to mention six semi-major and more than 200 minor ones), and top twelve political leaders, and who has dutifully memorized the phrase "Nigeria, symbol of democracy in tropical Africa", has surely exhausted his capacities for the assimilation of detail...
...with the new "villages." The sign on the gate said, "No children, no dogs"; there were shuffleboard courts, hobby shops, a bingo game every evening, and to many an oldster, it seemed as close to heaven as they cared to get. But there were other oldsters who viewed with dismay the thought of living out their remaining years in a ghetto of the aged, however comfortable its appointments or however lush its garden plots. In stead of putting themselves out to pasture, they preferred to remain in the hurly-burly of the megalopolis, where they could be close...
Nonetheless, the rapid troop buildup has caused horrendous cargo backups, which in turn limit the number of fighting men who can be supported in Viet Nam. To the dismay of field commanders, replacement troops have to be based in Okinawa and other reserve areas far from the front. With an average of 100 ships a day standing off their harbors, South Viet Nam's six biggest ports can at present handle only 17. As many as 40 ships at a time have been diverted to Japan, Okinawa and the Philippines to await docking space in Viet Nam; hundreds more...
...ticket!" An executive who was stuck in his 32nd-floor office with two attractive secretaries tried to sleep there?but his wife phoned every 15 minutes throughout the night. Thousands curled up in church pews?and at St. Patrick's Cathedral discovered to their dismay that there are no rest rooms. "We've been sending people over to the New Weston Hotel for 80 years," said Msgr. Thomas McGovern...