Word: dismays
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...home institution at which they spent their freshman year. Tulane cannot be considered a home institution to freshmen who have not attended a single class or spent more than a day or two on campus. I feel no connections to my supposed home institution. I only feel dismay that the events of the past few months have unfolded so unfortunately for Tulane...
...population.So, forgive me for thinking that Cambridge-Harvard relations aren’t really a problem. Yes, we strut around like we own the place, with our heavy volumes of Plato and Voltaire bursting out our big H-branded bags; we launch ourselves recklessly across the streets to the dismay of cab-drivers; we don’t necessarily “care” about the town itself. But the University enjoys a symbiotic relationship with Cambridge, forming an academic community which locals identify as a source of pride—not a symbol of an elitism which they...
...said he’s “all for keeping religious displays off of public property.” “A move towards secularizing holiday displays is all right with me,” George said. Reuters reported that several Boston residents voiced their dismay over the renaming of the tree on the city-run website promoting the Dec. 1 “Official Holiday Tree Lighting.” According to the Boston Globe, Menino tried to distance himself from the effort to rename the tree, saying that he would continue to call the Nova Scotia...
...theatrics surrounding the Murtha proposal, but perhaps more meaningful. Senate Democrats failed to win a commitment to the gradual withdrawal of U.S. troops. But the wording of the resolution wasn't nearly so important as the subtext. Politicians of both parties felt the need to express some sort of dismay about Iraq. And no one offered an amendment calling for a more robust U.S. military effort to win the war. That now seems beyond the realm of political possibility...
...seem to believe that the war against Islamist terrorism is the highest national priority. He said Iraq threatened to drain resources from "procurement programs that ensure our military dominance." On the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, he wondered if China were the real threat "down the road" and expressed dismay that "we only bought four or five ships this year...