Word: dismays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with great dismay and utter disbelief that I learned about the report on human sexuality [June 13]. I find it incredible that some Catholic theologians are giving their approval to extramarital sex and teaching that such relationships can be "creative and integrative for all involved." Who repealed God's commandment: Thou shall not commit adultery...
...represent the conservative Shlomzion Party, new Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan and one independent. Begin had hoped to build a sturdier and broader-based coalition by getting the support of the centrist, 15-member Democratic Movement for Change. Talks between the parties bogged down on foreign policy. To the dismay of DMC Leader Yigael Yadin, Likud refused to soften its stand on the West Bank or on the issue of new Israeli settlements in the occupied territories. The DMC also objected to Begin's choice of Dayan as Foreign Minister. Yadin's party temporarily broke off negotiations, and Begin...
...House aide, and Powell, the press secretary, dress as they please, ridicule pretense, joke incessantly, talk back to the boss, shun lunch at Sans Souci and rarely turn up at social functions; Jordan wears a black tie as if it were a noose. The pair are the wonder and dismay of Establishment Washington. They are country boys who have come so far, so fast, that the red clay of their native Georgia still clings, as it were, to their shoes, their accents and their lifestyles. They relish politics more for the pleasure than the power, more for the gambol than...
Following the Carter-Assad talks, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance briefed Israeli Foreign Minister Yigal Allon in London. Allon expressed dismay at "the accumulating effect of various expressions by American leaders." Vance assured Allon that the U.S. was not planning to impose a solution on the Middle East, but merely wanted to "help facilitate" the process of peacemaking. Allon was not mollified. The Israelis fear that the President already has a peace plan clearly in mind-and that it calls for Israeli withdrawal from virtually all the occupied territory...
There was broad dismay that the TV spectacle was motivated mainly by money. Millions wished that Watergate and Nixon would simply go away. "I hope we can keep this man caged up in San Clemente," said former Colorado Lieutenant Governor Mark Hogan. "He's a scary...