Search Details

Word: dismays (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...harm meditation. "How about if the speed of the mantra changes?" one fellow asked. Jarvis was pleased. "If the mantra changes speed, that is good," he answered. Another boy stood up and was really worried--he had forgotten his mantra completely during meditation! To everyone's surprise, and possible dismay, Jarvis smiled encouragingly. "Forgetting the mantra shows right meditation...

Author: By Michael J. Barrett, | Title: Salvation Through Meditation | 5/27/1968 | See Source »

Some freshmen, predictably, reacted with dismay. "They put me in Eliot," one cried. "Eliot! Can you believe it? Preppies live in Eliot...

Author: By Nicholas Gagarin, | Title: Freshmen Accept House Assignments With Cool, Sophistication, and Dismay | 5/13/1968 | See Source »

...agreement on an agenda and a date for a Communist summit conference in Moscow that the Kremlin has been promoting for years. The leaders had trouble, however, disguising the fact that most of the bloc will welcome such an event with a lack of enthusiasm bordering on dismay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Communists: Not Too Fraternal | 5/3/1968 | See Source »

...factor which increases the uncertainty on the Adams Cup outcome is the Severn River course at Annapolis. The Severn is notorious in the East for its rough, swelling water. As the Crimson discovered to its dismay in last year's opener against Northeastern, rough water can turn the most predictable race into a nightmare...

Author: By Tom Reston, | Title: Heavyweights Anticipate Stiffest Challenge of Season From Pennsylvania in Saturday's Adams Cup Race | 5/3/1968 | See Source »

...their dismay, the radicals found that the majority of West Germany's 282,000 students, who had joined them in countless nonviolent protests in recent months, wanted to back out when physical violence, to others and to themselves, became the rule. In fact, in Munich, where the two riot deaths occurred, moderate students, carrying banners that read STONES ARE NO ARGUMENTS, demonstrated against the Socialist German Student League, which had stirred up the violence. Confronted with failure on all fronts, the radicals, who constitute a well-organized 10% of the West German student body, withdrew to plot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: West Germany: Bitter Aftertaste | 4/26/1968 | See Source »

Previous | 260 | 261 | 262 | 263 | 264 | 265 | 266 | 267 | 268 | 269 | 270 | 271 | 272 | 273 | 274 | 275 | 276 | 277 | 278 | 279 | 280 | Next