Word: dismays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...European bailiwick. But North American pickings have never been so pitiful. After an entire week of schussing, sliding and skating, Canada and the U.S. were still fighting over a solitary gold medal, ultimately lifted from the Canadian Brian Orser by the U.S. figure skater Brian Boitano to the gentle dismay of the hometown Calgarians. The Americans had to plow their way through nearly half the Games to reap just two medals: the 1,500-meter silver taken by Flaim, and a bronze won with a bobble and a splat by Figure Skaters Peter Oppegard and Jill Watson. The U.S. pair...
Color us both crimson after your February 9 article concerning a recent University survey on SAT preparation. Imagine my dismay, in the wake of a lengthy but pleasant phone call from one of your reporters, to find our 15-minute discussion reduced to the one-liner with which I ended the interview...
...athlete who is pursued by middle-aged foreigners all intent on asking why he drives a Mercedes instead of a Porsche, and whether Killy was an early hero. (Answers: "Mercedes is an excellent car, and they give me one free." And no, Pirmi, as he was called to his dismay, was only five when Killy retired; his heroes were the Italian Gustavo Thoni, the flashy Swiss star Bernhard Russi and Stenmark...
...dismay of South Africa's liberal establishment, Bloom, 48, announced last week that he was leaving the country to settle in Britain. Bloom cited "serious personal and family reasons" for the move. His stepdaughter is receiving medical treatment in Britain. But he also said that South Africa's state of emergency was "frightening away liberals." Many of the country's leading citizens are choosing to live elsewhere. In the past five years, while only 52,000 whites have immigrated to South Africa, about 148,000 have left...
...from its prints because it feared a backlash from right-wing Japanese. Bertolucci accused Shochiku-Fuji of mutilating his masterpiece, an epic tale of modern China. Company Executive Shinji Serada phoned the Italian director to apologize, and promised to restore the missing clip. But the flap was certain to dismay the Chinese, who have often accused Japan of trying to avoid the blame for its militaristic past...