Word: dismays
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bedroom of the Definitive Woman, who lies stretched on the bed, long and loose. At her side is Quinte, the Incoherent Man. Quinte has been through hell, poor fellow. His marriage is a shell. He has been fired from his job and rejected by the Club. Now, to his dismay, Quinte discovers that the Definitive Woman is not a virgin, after all. "Perhaps," he says, fondling her frantically, "there are other ways...
Reminder. Happily, the commission prevented such lapses in last week's Appomattox ceremonies, much to the dismay of an outfit called the North-South Skirmish Association, which sent 42 costumed emissaries. Instead of shenanigans, there was a band concert and an address by Virginia's Governor Atbertis Harrison Jr. Senator Harry F. Byrd was present, and so were Lee's great-grandson, Robert E. Lee IV, 40, national advertising manager of the San Francisco Chronicle, and Grant's grandson, retired Army Major General Ulysses S. Grant...
Concerned. The protests flowed like molten lava to Washington. To his dismay, Nicholas Katzenbach found a troop of twelve Negro and white demonstrators parked in the corridor near his office, demanding that he send federal troops to Alabama. Katzenbach talked with them, tried to explain how the Federal Government works through the courts. He got nowhere, permitted the sit-ins to remain till closing time, then had them evicted...
...moment, though, much of the Germans' hurt and dismay over the new hostility toward them was vented on Chancellor Ludwig Erhard and the CDU-which could conceivably lose the national elections in September over the Middle East fiasco, as CDU strategists privately admitted. But the issue went deeper than German politics. Protesting against the "new wave of distrust," Die Zeit in a front-page editorial noted that there is a "new generation" of Germans which knows Nazi crimes "only from history books and which therefore finds it hard to comprehend that being a German is a flaw of birth...
Lyndon Johnson, the Mr. Maneuver of U.S. politics, last week discovered to his dismay that at times even the old pro can be outmaneuvered...