Word: dismays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Another joke: Steinbrenner issued a statement "to sincerely apologize to the people of New York and to fans of the New York Yankees everywhere for the performance of the Yankee team in the World Series." The players found this especially bitter. "Apologize?" Reggie Jackson muttered in dismay. "Apologize...
...NOTEBOOK: Margaret Cheng was on the court last night but she wasn't playing. She was officiating at the line. Her only call came in the third game when Harvard was leading 5-2. To her team-mates' dismay, Cheng called a ball in that the officials thought was out, and gave Brandeis the point...
...dismay of some and the delight of a few, Richard Nixon was back in the headlines. Ronald Reagan had asked him to join ex-Presidents Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter in the official U.S. delegation to the funeral of Egypt's Anwar Sadat. Then, mysteriously, Nixon had embarked on a private week's tour of Middle Eastern and North African capitals, fueling rumors that he was acting as an unofficial emissary for Reagan. (Not so, say both Nixon and the White House.) Just back from that trip, Nixon talked with TIME's Washington Contributing Editor Hugh Sidey...
...personal side: those who are shocked by the "dancing in the streets" in some countries celebrating the assassination of Anwar Sadat, can imagine the dismay of Unification Church members at the glee which often accompanies the vilification of Rev. Moon. As for the charges themselves, the court must decide upon their merits. I believe he will be found innocent. As for me, I felt indicted with...
...closing one street to automobiles only increases traffic in others. When main arteries are clogged, impatient commuters short-cut through residential streets-as the people on Boston's Appleton Street discovered, to their dismay. Incessant traffic noise, pollution and lack of parking rank high among the reasons why people move out of the cities...