Word: dismays
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...Explorer Dwight Eisenhower finally reached the windswept Summit, he saw to his dismay that the snow had been badly trampled, and disappearing down the snowy slope trundled a short, squat figure, the broad backsides, the large roll of fat clearly discernible between the ears. It was the Abdominal Snowman! Thus ended another episode in the series, "Explorer Eisenhower's Gullible Travels...
Roadblock. As Hagerty's Lockheed Super Constellation touched down from Okinawa, 30 minutes late, a wild melee broke out on the terrace between the right-wing and the left-wing toughs. Some 2,000 police surged forward to separate the combatants, while the sedate elders looked on in dismay. Ambassador MacArthur welcomed Hagerty and his companion. Appointments Secretary Thomas Stephens; the three paused briefly for photographs and then hurried to the ambassador's official black Cadillac. It sped off, followed by two Fords carrying six U.S Secret Servicemen. Just nine days later, President Dwight D. Eisenhower was scheduled...
...Mountain Road (William Goetz; Columbia) allows James Stewart, as a U.S. Army major*; wrestling with his first command, to explore the proposition that power not only corrupts, but embarrasses, confuses and dismays. The casting is logical, since durable Actor Stewart has grown wealthy by relentlessly registering embarrassment, confusion and dismay on the screen. Major Stewart's predicament in the film is more serious than usual. It is 1944, his seven-man demolition team is the last garrison of an airfield in southeast China, and the Japanese are advancing 40 miles away. Radioed orders pass the buck; the major...
...Idaho came an answering echo from gallivanting Jack Kennedy, who had not been saying much about foreign affairs lately. "Our leadership appears palsied," he said, "and sympathy, not respect, is the reluctant sentiment we elicit from our allies-sympathy for the President as a man of good will, but dismay at the shocking lack in presidential directive as displayed in the U-2 incident. The maintenance of peace and the security of Berlin should not hang on the constant possibility of engine failure...
...Wicked World. Had Khrushchev committed the fatal psychological error of protesting too much? When news of Powers' capture first broke, the reaction of many free-world nations was dismay and indignation at Washington. Pakistan's Foreign Secretary Mohammed Ikramullah stiffly declared that, if Soviet charges that Powers' flight began at Peshawar proved true, Pakistan would "lodge a strong protest with the Government of the U.S." With less justification, the Norwegian government did make a formal protest, asked the U.S. "to take all necessary steps to avoid that similar landings are planned in the future." In Japan, where...