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Round one--the pies simply graze the ankles of the two participants. The crowd groans in obvious dismay. The second about is more satisfying, with pies be-purpling the chemises of both Miss Markof-Belaeff and Mr. Holmes. However, round three takes the cake (so to speak), when both participants approach within a foot of each other and boldly smush a pie in the other's face...
These harsh realities are every bit as troubling to oilmen as to anybody else. They chafe at charges that they belong to some sort of seamless monolith, and they are bewildered by the public's suspicions. The dismay is understandable. Hardly the conspiratorial business that it is widely thought to be, the 1.8 million-employee industry operates in an intensely competitive arena...
...read with some dismay the recent letter to The Crimson signed by a dozen teaching fellows in Government (April 23, 1979). The authors of this letter urge students and faculty neither to boycott classes nor, presumably, to engage in any demonstrations organized in whole or part by the Coalition for Awareness and Action. Why? Because to do so would be to tacitly accept their "irresponsible accusation" about American society as well as "the bad judgment it encourages...
...Captain expressed no dismay at having been removed with a no-hitter going. This was the plan before the game since he has not worked since last Wednesday's contest at Boston College and has to be sharp for the Quakers' heavy hitters. "I'm really looking forward to that game," he said with a smile...
...served notice that he intended to "hang the blighter," as he put it, but hope persisted that he would spare Bhutto's life if only to save his troubled country from another divisive emotional trauma. Thus reaction to the execution last week was one of shock and dismay. French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, who had just drafted another appeal to Zia, expressed his "profound emotion" at the execution. Britain's Guardian editorialized: "Death came to Bhutto not with the due panoply of justice but like a thief in the night, a deed done shamefully...