Word: dismays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...East Germany. Once the most obedient of peoples in the Soviet bloc, the East Germans have begun to manifest discontent with life in the most prosperous and at the same time one of the most oppressive countries in Communist Europe. Much to the dismay of Party Boss Erich Honecker, some 200,000 people have applied to live in West Germany. Although many of the applicants have lost their jobs and apartments, tradesmen, workers and professional people still persist in trying...
...underscore the new factor of emotional involvement as opposed to simple animal passion, the usual scenes of sexual conquest are conspicuous only by their absence. The substitutes, however, are much better than the originals. The scene where Harry tells his partner, Inspector Moore (Tyne Daly), (much to his initial dismay) that "a guy could do a lot worse than having you for a partner" is a development in Harry's character of considerable dimensions. You can see it coming a mile away, but it is still a big event when it comes...
...boarded the bus for the stadium, to our dismay we found ourselves surrounded by Alabama fans--drunk Alabama fans; choruses of "Roll, Tide, Roll" were intermingled with calls for "Raaalph". But Lou was undaunted; the banner lay ahead...
Despite Dr. Montemayor's dismay at the lack of decisive action, hours passed before the billionaire was moved. To the very end, the entourage went through the old familiar rituals of secrecy, masquerade, and concealment. Before they removed Hughes, they reserved a suite at the Houston Methodist Hospital for him in the name of "J.T. Conover." They put a Houston ambulance on a stand-by alert at the airport for an unnamed patient "suffering from diabetes...
Halfway House. To the dismay and embarrassment of Israeli officials, a growing number of Russian Jews are reluctant to go to Israel. While the vast majority of refugees in the early 1970s went to Israel, 59% of those who arrived at the halfway house for emigrants in Vienna last month expressed a desire to settle in the U.S. Now a long-simmering dispute between Israelis and some U.S. Jewish organizations over the destination of the refugees may jeopardize the future of Jewish emigration from the Soviet Union...