Word: aback
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Department was somewhat taken aback to find how deeply Washington is attached to its L'Enfant-Mellon plan. Senators rumbled. The President wrote an admonishing letter. The press said: You can't do that. Someone suggested that the Department move to the 550-acre grounds of the Soldiers' Home in north Washington. It began to look as though the War Department had raised a potent ghost...
...help feeling a little taken aback after reading your article [TIME, Feb. 10] on Heine-reading, bench-sitting Egon Ludwig Hanfstaengl...
...hobby-rider, he also likes to paint pictures-brightly colored, engagingly irresponsible pictures of beach scenes, toylike Venetian canals, imaginary Oriental landscapes, houses like patchwork quilts. Last week Sutter Street's Raymond & Raymond Gallery was exhibiting some of Papa Hiler's paintings. The critics were pleasantly taken aback. Said the San Francisco Chronicle's Alfred Frankenstein: "He sets up quite regular rhythmic patterns and then answers them in a kind of sudden, surprising syncopation. It is the nearest visual approach to hot jazz...