Word: dismays
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...treats ideas as subordinate to actions and feelings. Kennedy is not interested in ideas themselves, but in what they can do. In using them to set the tone of his campaign last fall, he concentrated on medicare to great effect against Lodge, and on local issues to the dismay of Hughes. Pragmatically he says of the Senate "you're able really to make some suggestions if you've done your (intellectual) homework...
...Communists in both North and South Vietnam seem to be strongly nationalistic. They have been struggling to remain neutral in the Sino-Soviet dispute. Some representatives of the North Vietnamese government have even dropped hints about accepting U. S. aid, in Titoist fashion, much to the dismay of the rabidly anti-American Chinese...
...that in such circumstances, Diefenbaker would do the same. As Prime Minister, he has the technical right to remain in power until voted down in the House of Commons, and might well try to form a coalition with the funny-money Social Crediters. That possibility filled Lester Pearson with dismay. "I can think of nothing else much worse for Canada," he said, "except war or complete domestic anarchy, than to have this country fall into the hands of a group of parties of such men as Mr. Diefenbaker and Mr. Caouette." With Diefenbaker making the most of his gift from...
...such bulky items as blankets and draperies than for men's suits and outerwear. Fulltime attendants (often required by local laws) sent up labor costs. Electric bills were high, and machines frequently proved unreliable. Clothes often came out smelling like sulphur. Many began to echo the wry dismay of Irwin Gott, a Houston jeweler-turned-drycleaner: "I didn't intend this to be a nonprofit corporation; it just turned out that...
...July 22, with Venus in perfect position for an easy encounter, Mariner I took off from Canaveral. For a while its Atlas climbed properly; then it began to yaw like a monstrous fish trying to shake a hook. All Canaveral watched in dismay as the great rocket snaked across the sky. The safety officer touched his destruct button, and the whole vehicle dissolved into a burst of orange flame and a shower of smoking shards...