Word: dismays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When the Fangs arrive in China, East meets West and, as expected, both learn a bit from each other. Fang replaces his jogging with Mr. Chao's workout, which is as much mental as phsyical; Lili adopts some of Paul's arrogance, to the dismay of her parents; and Paul remembers some of his childhood ping-pong expertise, eventually going head to head with Lili's beau in an area youth tournament...
...members had no promise of tenure, and the curriculum consisted--as it still does--of Socratic seminars, Great Books courses and the like. Instead of grades, students got written evaluations, and still do. The original student body of 1,000 included a fair number of hippie types, to the dismay of the down-home state legislature, which showed a recurring tendency to try to cut off funds. But Evergreen hung...
...only have a dollar," I whined in dismay, "and I need four quarters...
...audience and began his talk by relating a personal anecdote drawn from his halcyon days of the 1950s when he was a young Harvard student in medieval history. Back then the controversial religious thinker and founder of the Catholic Worker Movement, Dorothy Day, spoke on campus to the apparent dismay of one of Law's professors who refused to open his mind to her ideas or to attend her lecture. Day was given a generally negative review by The Harvard Crimson which this professor cited to justify his own negative views...
There is down deep near every President's gizzard an errant SOB that on some dark day rises and bursts from the fellow's lips, scattering either delight or dismay across the land, depending on the state of each listener's soul...