Word: dismays
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reaction abroad was compounded of disgust and dismay, something the military junta had obviously not reckoned on. Nine Latin American countries suspended or broke off relations. The blow that hurt most came from the U.S. Having persistently warned Peru's military of the consequences of a coup, the U.S. suspended relations, stopped $81 million in Alliance aid, cut off military aid now running at $5,000,000 a year, and threatened as well to take away Peru's premium-priced U.S. sugar quota, amounting to $19 million a year. "A serious setback" to democracy, said President Kennedy...
Teilhard hoped to get his ideas published but, as a good Jesuit, obeyed when Rome said no. Nevertheless, manuscript copies of his works filtered into scholarly French circles. To the dismay of the Vatican, an international committee of intellectuals-including Biologist Sir Julian Huxley and Historian Arnold Toynbee -has posthumously sponsored publication of his major works. Teilhard, who was known in his lifetime as one of the discoverers of the Peking Man, thought of himself as "a pilgrim of the future," and his reputation continues to grow: a museum in Paris bears his name, more than 500 monographs...
Since taking command of the Pentagon last year. Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara has vigorously goaded the sacred cows of the armed forces, to bellows of dismay from affronted admirals, generals and Congressmen. Last week it was the state Governors' turn to yowl as McNamara took steps to put a halter on the most sacred cow of all: the Army National Guard. At their conference in Hershey, Pa., the Governors met with McNamara to protest his plan to reform and cut back the Guard, a traditional source of political power, prestige and pay in their home states...
Just when Kennedy was trying to calm the business community,* Solicitor General Archibald Cox betook himself back to Harvard for a speech calculated to make any businessman blanch with dismay. His message: a way must be found to bring Government into wage-and-price-making decisions on a regular basis and at ''a fairly early stage" in the process. It may be enough for now that the Government "make known, widely and forcefully, the general policies that it thinks would advance the public interest." said Cox, but "there are a number of reasons for thinking that...
...secret conference continued. Delegates and about half of Springfield mobbed the Sheraton lobby for free drinks and food supplied by the candidates. Peabody's bar dispensed the hard stuff for about five straight hours, but Kennedy limited his offering to coke, ginger ale, and Seven-Up, much to the dismay of several delegates...