Word: dismays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...World Bank is reported to have said that India will need some $12 billion in aid over the next half-decade. Yet several of India's staunchest aid donors-the U.S., Canada and Japan -voiced dismay at New Delhi's announcement that it would proceed with a costly nuclear-development program. A proposed $75 million U.S. aid program for India may now be in jeopardy. Last week Canada angrily suspended its long-given assistance to India's atomic energy program and promised to "review" other aid programs (excepting food) designated for New Delhi...
Significantly, the embargo also "caused considerable frustration and dismay, almost akin to a feeling of betrayal." Without abundant energy, the American way of life seemed lost. The answer, Keller continued, is "to develop a new philosophy of life-nothing short of that-as we are forced to shift our priorities from accumulation to preservation." Facing up to energy shortages, she hoped, "may encourage a sense of togetherness and community that everyone seems to be seeking...
...Cane directed the board to fill all present openings with teachers who had been fired, and five were rehired. But the order leaves unsettled both the contract and the rehiring of the others. As the strikers mapped plans last week for mass demonstrations in June, others in Hortonville expressed dismay at what the dispute had done to their once-tranquil community. Said Mrs. Ann Milleren: "Such a hatred has grown. The scars will be a long time healing...
...Newspaper editors and publishers in the Republican heartland studied the transcripts with sinking hearts and mounting dismay. One after another, they reversed then-previous positions and wrote, in sorrow and in anger, editorials calling for Nixon's resignation or impeachment. In a column published by all of the Hearst newspapers, Editor in Chief William Randolph Hearst Jr. said that the President "seems to have a moral blind spot." The Omaha World-Herald saw him "as a man incapable of providing the moral leadership which the United States is entitled to expect from its President." The Chicago Tribune deplored his "lack...
...dismay," Lois Stalvey writes, "I learned for the first time that my children expected teachers to slap, hit, kick children"-some of the children, that is. The school's white principal and both black and white teachers treated white children and their parents with respect and attention. But the lower-income black children, whose speech, dress and attitudes often alienated their middle-class teachers, were consistently humiliated, labeled "slow" or "stupid" and physically abused...