Word: dismays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Jimmy Connors does not labor under Kant's burden. Sometimes when the tennis gets intense, Connors grabs his crotch and shakes it for the crowd. He pelts the linesmen and judges with rotten language. He shoots his finger. The umpire usually responds with the flustered and ineffectual dismay of a curate who has discovered the servants copulating in his study...
...international outrage sparked by the Afghanistan conquest was the most severe since the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. Seeking to capitalize on the shock and dismay, the U.S. promoted a U.N. Security Council resolution demanding the immediate withdrawal of Soviet troops. The vote was 13 to 2 in favor, but the Soviet Union promptly, and predictably, exercised its veto...
...with utter disbelief and complete dismay that we heard the announcement that your magazine had named Ayatullah Khomeini Man of the Year. Your reasoning that he did most to shape the world "for better or worse" is not only appalling but disgusting...
...often the case during periods of startling revelations, discoveries not only advance knowledge, but they also raise many new questions. Indeed, there are several basic physical problems that astrophysicists must strive to unravel in the 1980s. But the creation of additional queries should not cause dismay or frustration, for this is precisely how science operates. Each discovery that adds to the storehouse of information generates a host of new questions that eventually lead to more discoveries and so on, thus causing a rich acceleration of basic knowledge. It was the great rate of discovery that seems to have made...
...dismay of an internationalist like myself, nationalism has proven to be the strongest force in the world--a surprise and disappointment also to Marxists. As long as this remains so, we must be prepared to defend our interests by domestic measures that will strengthen our economy through conservation, the use of nuclear power as an interim measure until we can develop still safer sources of energy (or else we shall fight a class war between the educated who want amenities and the less-educated who would also like amenities but who want first of all jobs and heat). I would...