Word: dismays
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...look with dismay upon the rising militant actions of Negro leadership. Negro impatience can readily be understood, but whereas peaceful demonstration brings ever more sympathy and strength to the movement, defiance and ultimatums breed doubt, and riots breed hatred that delivers irreparable damage. Poor leadership has lost many a battle regardless of the strength of the troops. I pray that the Negro community will follow those leaders capable of restraint...
Signs of Objection. A consequence of the Negroes' heightened militancy was that it brought some signs of dismay and hostility among Northern whites. In Chicago, Lawyer Stephen Love, a white member of the N.A.A.C.P., angrily resigned from the organization because its leaders refused to apologize to Mayor Richard Daley for the jeering he received at an N.A.A.C.P. meeting. In Washington, Ohio's Democratic Senator Stephen Young warned that if any Negro demonstrators try a sit-in demonstration in his office he will "personally and forcibly" throw them out. In New York City, demonstrators besieging a White Castle hamburger...
...disease is as old as the pharaohs -telltale traces remain in mummies 3,000 years old-but to the dismay of public health doctors, it is more prevalent than ever. Schistosomiasis, bilharziasis, snail fever-by whatever name, the debilitating and often fatal illness afflicts more than 150 million people in Africa, Latin America and Asia. The disease is almost unknown in the U.S.; the few scattered cases brought into the country each year by visitors and immigrants fail to spread, create no public problem...
Last week, to the dismay of those skeptical stockholders who had switched shares and given I.C.I, a 38.5% interest in the company, Courtaulds reported that earnings for the year ending last March jumped to a surprising $74 million on sales of $519 million. The chal lenge of takeover has given the old company such a new openness that Managing Director Frank Kearton, 51, says, "We are coming to be like those film starlets who don't care what's written about them as long as they get their names in print...
Action returns to the present and a townsman, gazing up at Muscari's statue, says "People now are much more honest than 70 years ago." The statue, in a final gesture, shrugs his marble shoulders in dismay...