Word: dismays
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When Jose Figueres, former president of Costa Rica, left Harvard after a term, as visiting professor this fall, he spoke with joy of the tremendous interest in Latin America evident among undergraduates at the college. But he also spoke with frank dismay of the lack of courses given to study of the area: its history, its politics, its literatures, its importance...
...Washington, there was dismay-and growing anger. President Johnson refused to back down. Annoyed U.S. officials raised the possibility that Chiari might not have intended to let the crisis simmer down, that the so-called "agreement" was merely a maneuver to put the U.S. in a bad light and bolster the Chiari party's chances in the May 10 elections...
...such a demand might develop. It would be presumptuous to assume that it will. However, if it should, like any other concerned American I would have a duty to accept." Back home, the Detroit News growled: "Governor Romney has impaired his re-election chances in Michigan. He has brought dismay to a state party just organizing in his image after 14 years of defeat." Romney replied that his remarks were no more than "the normal reaction of any red-blooded American." > Pennsylvania's Governor William Scranton was having trouble fighting off his followers. He told a Harrisburg news conference...
...such literally bruising personal contact with the press. But only once did Paul VI show annoyance at the ceaseless importunities of the newsmen. In Capernaum, where he knelt to pray in the ruins of a synagogue where Christ himself is said to have preached, Paul drew back in dismay when a radio newscaster thrust a microphone directly under the papal chin...
...Pastor Glenesk was educated at the University of Toronto and Columbia, worked as a professional teacher, actor and social worker before his ordination. He was called to Spencer in 1955. It was then a staid little parish faced with the prospect of expanding or closing shop. Much to the dismay of oldtimers at Spencer-one of them calls him "that big clown clunking around the church in leotards"-Glenesk decided to make a play for the newcomers in Brooklyn Heights, many of them arts-conscious, church-shy refugees from Greenwich Village. Glenesk has lost some veteran members of the congregation...