Word: dismays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nixonomics; unlike Meany, they see no reason to let up on the President now. What has Nixon done to deserve it? In their view, his policies have clamped down on wages, boosted unemployment, sent capital fleeing abroad and caused the virtual disappearance of the electronics industry-much to the dismay of the powerful machinists union. Yet, by staying neutral, Meany and his allies in the steelworkers union are helping Nixon get reelected; some of the building trades unions, in fact, are expected to endorse the President. The dissident union chieftains are frankly baffled. They wonder if Meany knows something they...
...Dismay. If McGovern thought that those firm words would be the end of it, he was badly mistaken. Almost at once, the Furies descended. The telephones and news tickers at McGovern's temporary headquarters in Custer, S. Dak., quickly relayed the anger and dismay of key Democrats round the U.S. McGovern's finance chiefs, already facing a red-ink campaign, winced in despair. Editorialists let go their thunderbolts, crying for Eagleton to quit the ticket. McGovern calmly stayed put in South Dakota. Eagleton, at first shaken, gained strength through a hectic week of campaigning in California and Hawaii...
...that the lack of treatment was intentional. Senator William Proxmire of Wisconsin, a member of the subcommittee that oversees PHS's budgets, called the study "a moral and ethical nightmare." Dr. Merlin K. DuVal Jr., Assistant Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare for Health and Scientific Affairs, expressed dismay and launched an investigation...
...mostly absent from Steinberg's current show, perhaps indicating an attempt to mollify cautious network executives. The show dispenses with big production numbers and cue cards-to the dismay of some guests who have difficulty memorizing their lines. TV's canned-laugh track is also eliminated in favor of a live audience-but fortunately there is plenty of genuine laughter to make...
Apart from his occasional feeling of neglect, Lolich is a convivial, freewheeling sort. To the dismay of his wife and Tiger Manager Billy Martin, he often rides a motorcycle 28 miles to work from his home in the Detroit suburb of Washington. Last year, when for the first time in his career he won his 20th game, Lolich sprung for six bottles of champagne for his teammates. This season, the honors that have long eluded him are in view. McLain is in the minors, and Blue, after a lengthy holdout, has yet to win a game. Meanwhile, Lolich is bewildering...