Word: dismays
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...there-five women, a three-year-old girl and a baby-into a back room. One woman shouted, "There'll be 40 people here in a few minutes." Smith replied: "I'm sorry, but I didn't bring enough ammunition for them." He found to his dismay that the sandwich bags were too small to pull over a person's head, but he still had his knives and his pistol. So Smith ordered his victims to lie down in a circle like spokes in a wheel-their heads at the center, their feet on the perimeter...
...harvest throughout India is falling far short of expected goals-grim warning of a repeat of last year's food crisis, when the country was saved from outright starvation only by the shipment of 10 million tons of U.S. food. The current bitterness also seems to reflect widespread dismay over the failure of political leaders to provide dramatic remedies for India's huge problems...
...went to work for the New Deal," Pike says. "I had a real sense of cause, of saving the widows and orphans from being robbed by Wall Street." He became engaged to another agnostic, Esther Yanovsky, and together they drew up their own marriage service; much to their dismay, the judge who presided at their 1942 wedding* blandly used the formula from the Episcopal Book of Common Prayer...
...office of state treasurer would seem to hold little appeal for most aspiring politicians. Stevenson was even misquoted, to his dismay, by a Washington Post society columnist as supposedly remarking that the state treasurership was "dreadfully dull." Actually there are several sound reasons for his candidacy. As Stevenson sees it, the treasurer's office provides him with an opportunity to speak out on what he feels are the crucial problems facing. Illinois state government, such as the conflicts of interest among office holders which Stevenson feels are the primary sources of corruption and inefficiency in Illinois government. Stevenson also realizes...
...highway patrol's dismay, Florida's Attorney General Earl Faircloth last week went far beyond Williams' analysis in a ruling that suspended the use of radar and electronic timers as well as airplanes. Under current Florida law, said Faircloth, the information provided by all these gadgets is hearsay evidence and is therefore inadmissible. To restore electronic enforcement, Faircloth urged the state legislature to legalize such information by classifying it as prima-facie evidence. If the legislature agrees, Florida courts will be able to accept the evidence as conclusive whenever the defendant fails to rebut...