Word: dismays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...attempt to achieve a quick removal of Syrian and Israeli forces from Lebanon has, to Reagan's dismay, sidetracked the Middle East peace plan he announced on Sept. 1. Admits a White House official: "Lebanon is the essential issue to get solved before we can go on with the rest of the peace process." The dilemma, as Lebanese Prime Minister Wazzan noted last week, is that Lebanon will never be truly stable and independent until there is a comprehensive settlement of the key Palestinian problem. And such a settlement, whether proposed by Reagan or anyone else, remains...
...past three weeks, I've seen a lot of Harvard women's volleyball games. And, to the great dismay of many, I have not quit the Crimson. In the spring, I'll make sure that the most resourceful and skilled comper gets the men's volleyball beat. The sport deserves...
...bodies through the streets Near by was the head, shoulder and arm of a person who had been blown apart. Sirens screaming, the cars of Gemayel's Lebanese Forces began screeching to a halt in front of the building. Suddenly a Phalangist official struck himself on the face in dismay and frustration and shouted: "Bashir is inside...
...think there is any major complaint about our service," says Dr. Warren E C. Wacker, director of UHS Wacker says he believes the statistics in the complaint, though correct in themselves, constitute a "statistical aberration" because they refer only to a five-month period: in addition, he expresses dismay that the figures were apparently copied out of a BWH delivery log, in violation of patients' confidentiality rights...
...Jewish history? So goes the question, still reaching toward yesterday. Yet the answer lies in the present, in what Israel is right now. For all the turmoil it suffers, the country remains a miracle. Read some 19th century accounts of Palestine by travelers like Mark Twain and note their dismay at the dreariness around them. Then look at the Hula Valley in the north, with its plums and avocados springing from a former swamp; or at the universities and concert halls; or, abstractly, at the only working democracy in the region. The cause for outrage at Israel's undemocratic...