Word: aback
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Successor to Darwin? Sexologist Wilfred C. Kinsey was not taken aback by the uproar. He had predicted three years ago that his book might sell a million copies (all royalties would go back into the project). Journeymen book reviewers took a quick look and promptly hailed Kinsey as one of the greatest scientists since Darwin. He appeared to have found that some 85% of U.S. men have premarital intercourse, nearly 70% have intercourse with prostitutes, between 30% and 45% have extra-marital intercourse and 37% have some kind of homosexual experience...
Margarita calls a great football player one who can block and tackle as well as run. He considers Frank Sinkwich one of the finest all around players in his experience. "I like aback who is heavy fast, and hard-running," he says with a chuckie. "And that's Sinkwich...
...meant. Last week, the age-old question was before it again. And the Court, operating more as a debating society than as the Government's judicial mind, could produce nothing better than a 5-to-4 decision which settled little and solved nothing. It did show? and thereby took aback those who fondly imagined that the question had been answered long ago?that the relations of church and state were still, or again, an issue...
When police informed him that his wallet could be recovered at headquarters, he was taken aback, remarking, "The bounder, I never would have thought it of him. He rather duped...
...Wallace Choice. That was the end of the uproar. In the first after-silence, those two fledgling organizations,-the National Citizens P.A.C. and the Independent Citizens Committee of the Arts, Sciences and Professions (TIME, Sept. 9) looked a little taken aback. It was at their rally that their hero Wallace had made his speech. They had hardly anticipated such a far-reaching result...