Word: dismays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...swing at a woman purser, who thereupon screamed into the p.a. system, "Emergency! Emergency!" By then, the crew-including Greeks, Jamaicans and Koreans, who had difficulty communicating both with one another and with the guests-began to protest too. One maitre d' fled his dining room in dismay. Said he: "I'm going to stay and get killed by people...
...chasm of disagreement between Jerusalem and Cairo on the future of the West Bank and Gaza Strip continues to block a possible Middle East peace agreement-much to Washington's dismay. At his press conference last week, President Carter pledged that the U.S. "will not back off" from its determination to work for an Arab-Israeli settlement. He also categorized as "very disappointing" the Israeli government's refusal to concede that sovereignty over the West Bank and Gaza will ever be relinquished. The President then observed, disapprovingly, that Israel had also "rejected an Egyptian proposal [on the territories...
...with in the back room-all of them tense until the A.P. ticker chattered and reported something like this: "With all downstate precincts now reported in, and only Cook County precincts unreported, Richard Nixon has surged into the lead by 3,000 votes." I was dismayed, for if Nixon had really carried Illinois, the game was all but over. And at this point I was jabbed from dismay by the outburst of jubilation from young Dick Donahue, who yelped, "He's got them! Daley made them go first. He's still holding back ... watch him play his hand...
...reason for his dismay was the threat of a new political crisis that hit Italy just as the country was recovering from the tragic kidnaping and murder of former Premier Aldo Moro. Appearing on national television last week in the midst of World Cup soccer telecasts, white-thatched President Giovanni Leone, 69, a 34-year Christian Democratic political veteran and two-time former Premier, informed his "fellow Italians" in a heavy Neapolitan accent that he was resigning from the presidency...
...general dismay about the decay of the Rolling Stones has been at least temporarily dispelled by the release of Some Girls, an album that recalls the glory days of Exile on Main Street and Sticky Fingers. Like the phoenix, the Stones have risen up from the ashes of their recent disappointments and their tragic personal difficulties to record one of their most energetic and compelling albums...