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...letter represents one of the few instances in which a Faculty group has publicly broached the issue of the war with Kissinger. Aside from one White House meeting last May at whicha group of critical senior Faculty members held an "on-the-record" meeting with him to express their dismay at the Cambodian invasion, other meetings and contacts have been mostly individual and always private...
...reform themselves. You can't underestimate the power of fear." In 1964, Tricia, then only 18, sent an admiring letter to Lester Maddox, later Governor of Georgia. She suggested that he might avoid serving blacks by turning his fried-chicken restaurant into a private club. Subsequently, she expressed dismay that her letter had been taken as racist and denied that it was so intended...
...Taipei. After all, the former Vice President was well known as a vigorous antiCommunist, and Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek naturally expected him to continue Washington's longstanding policy of isolating the Red government on China's mainland. Of late, however, the warmth has turned to deep dismay over the Nixon Administration's increasingly friendly gestures toward the mainland government...
...After his team bounded jubilantly into the locker room. Coach Larry Costello locked the door until everyone had a chance to simmer down. Then he announced grandly: "Let the press in!" In they came-three reporters and a stray autograph hound. "No TV cameras, nothing!" Costello fairly shouted in dismay. "If the Knicks had set this record, the news would be in Tokyo already...
...corruption and repression, and hanged him. Before returning the country to the politicians, the soldiers framed a new constitution that was adopted in 1961, and they took a certain pride of authorship in seeing it work. The course of government under Demirel was a source of ever-increasing dismay to them...