Word: dismays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Vorenberg voiced dismay at the takeover, whichcame one month after the dean had met with BLSAleaders to address their concerns regarding thesmall number of minority faculty at the school...
...great was her desire to go to Harvard that she almost didn't apply anywhere else, much to the dismay of her high-school guidance counselor...
...even though corner drug shops are not going to pop up anytime soon, nor should they, the hot new debate over legalization is a significant one. It reflects the widespread and understandable dismay over antidrug efforts that have gone to such discomforting lengths as to call in the military without noticeably making a dent in the crime and abuse problems. And it could turn attention to the need for more effective treatment and education efforts, rather than merely more election-year frenzy and posturing...
...Bear' " -- his head periscopes over his hands -- "and you expose yourself to these terrible body blows. Drugs." His midsection abruptly gives under the imagined punch, but the hands stay up. "Debt." He buckles again. "The purchasing of America. Energy." It is Jesse Jackson's analysis of the gut dismay he finds in contemporary America. He is an ecumenical collector of dismays...
John Tinkler sniffs. "Hell," he says, drawing the word out into two syllables ripe with reluctance and dismay. "If someone really and truly believes that his speech is keeping him from getting along in the world, I suppose he must change it. But he isn't paying any attention to how John T. Lupton talks. He's the fellow who sold his Coca-Cola bottling franchise here for a billion and a half...