Word: dismays
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unite yourselves with unbelievers," St. Paul told the first Christians of Corinth. To the surprise and dismay of their fellow Britons, more than 10,000 members of the Exclusive Brethren sect are currently trying to take the injunction literally and separate themselves from the rest of society...
...vast extent of our frontiers, by haphazard legislation piled up over the years, by a lack of definite means of combatting it." Communism? Not this time. The official was bemoaning a corrupting force that antedates even Marx-the legion of Latin American smugglers who, to the policeman's dismay and consumer's delight, control some 20% of Latin America's import trade...
...Governor Scranton's belated entry into the Republican presidential race last week, most U.S. newspapers correctly assumed that Barry Goldwater had the nomination sewed up. And most, large and small, didn't like it. Seldom has a presidential candidate-especially a potential Republican leader -evoked such dissatisfaction, dismay and wrath from the cartoonists and editorial writers of the U.S. press...
...Global Affair. As an obscure U.N. employee who has been nursing a closetful of computers, Bob Hope blinks in dismay at his new assignment: the care and feeding of a blonde baby girl, abandoned in the U.N. lobby. "You've got the wrong man," burbles Bob. "I didn't even go to the Christmas party." Nevertheless he takes the tyke home to his bachelor flat, powders her with confectioners' sugar, fastens her diapers with Scotch tape, and warms her milk in an empty fifth. Meanwhile, back at U Thant's East River headquarters, an international incident...
Edward Prince of Wales grew up to be neither perfect nor anything like the Prince Consort, as Victoria learned to her dismay. But in one sense, argues British Biographer Philip Magnus, he was indeed the perfect man: he-fulfilled Britain's concept of itself as neither Victoria nor Prince Albert had ever done. If he was an anachronism, so was the Britain in which he grew up and ruled. The secret of his easy popularity, thinks Author Magnus, was that he scarcely ever betrayed by word or deed what some of his countrymen dimly suspected: the fact that...