Word: dismays
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Death's Door. Fastest-growing U.S. area for skindiving is the Northeast, despite water cloudy and cold enough to dismay a mackerel. For warmth, New Englanders may pull on foam-rubber "wet" suits,* will even chip a hole through ice to get at water. In the landlocked Midwest, divers gang together for long trips to Death's Door-a channel off a Wisconsin peninsula jutting into Lake Michigan, where, tucked among hidden reefs, lie more than 200 ships dating back to the 17th century. In parched New Mexico, a club called the Dusty Divers makes weekend round trips...
...absorbing friendship with a brilliant young man a few years his senior. Innocence in the 1870s is hardly more surprising than blue eyes, and it is not until they have traveled through Europe together for several months that Millhouser discovers his friend to be a homosexual. He returns in dismay to Pennsylvania and takes up a quiet life in his mother's house...
...producers throughout the Arab world heard of the Japanese strike with some dismay. New oil discoveries have already helped saturate the market, threaten to drive petroleum prices down. In spite of the glut, the search for new fields gallops along in the Mideast and North