Word: dismays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Carey, who spends much of her time trying to convince prospective that Harvard is a rewarding place, is herself an example of how effective minority recruiting can be in dispelling myths about the University. She attended a small Catholic high school in Brooklyn where her classmates evinced surprise and dismay when they found out she was accepted at Harvard. This reaction (which she now calls "outrageous") almost convinced Carey to change her mind, until her parents intervened to encourage the Ivy League choice...
...took command. It was a year in which Israel's truculent Prime Minister Menachem Begin completely redrew the power map of the Middle East by invading neighboring Lebanon and smashing the Palestinian guerrilla forces there. The military campaign was a success, but all the world looked with dismay at the thunder of Israeli bombs on Beirut's civilians and at the massacres in the Palestinian refugee camps. It was a year in which Argentina tested the decline of European power by seizing the Falkland Islands, only to see Britain, led by doughty Margaret Thatcher, meet the test by taking them...
...rest ve. Corporation men, but not without dismay...
...minutes, from Burd to Burris, Ronald and Nancy Reagan sat in the chapel. To the dismay of some veterans, it was the President's only participation in the week's salute, and on his way out of the chapel, he could not resist putting an ideological point on the proceedings: "We are beginning to appreciate that they were fighting for a just cause...
Though they come from different ends of America, and hold down different ends of the line, the pair's styles of play mesh seam lessly, much to the dismay of opposing ball carriers and quarterbacks...