Word: dismays
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...think that they even have a place for barrels for that trash," Vellucci said. The councillor first became aware of the deplorable situation when he walked down Bow Street early one morning this week, finding, to his shock and dismay, "broken whiskey bottles, beer cans, rubbish and everything you can think of lying on that street...
From then on, S.F. State was gripped in a steady escalation of violence. Students seized buildings, police swung clubs, and administrators looked on in dismay...
Early last year, when U.S. Olympic Basketball Coach Hank Iba was trying to round up a team for Mexico City, he learned to his dismay that Lew Alcindor, the U.C.L.A. skyscraper, and several other Negro stars were planning to skip the Games. The best Iba could do for center was Spencer Haywood, 19, a 6-ft. 8-in. player from Colorado's Trinidad State Junior College...
...time of the invasion of Czechoslovakia, both the Voice of America and the BBC naturally devoted extra air time to news and comment. Much of the comment expressed outrage and dismay, some from Communist papers around the world. Soviet citizens have learned from foreign radio-much more than from their own news sources-of the rising cries of dissent from their country's intellectuals. The Voice of America, for example, has broadcast full versions of Physicist Andrei Sakharov's extraordinary outline for an East-West detente (which is critical of both U.S. and Soviet current policy) and Major...
...pour out Masses, passions, oratorios and a large share of the 350 cantatas he is believed to have written (of which 224 survive). Yet Bach's listeners remained unimpressed. At the first performance of his St. Matthew Passion, one puritanical woman in the congregation cried out in dismay: "Heaven help us! It might be an opera...