Word: aback
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...called sotsu-no-nai, which roughly means "perfect," but also has a snide connotation of being a little too perfect, too ladylike, too obedient to the rules. A professor once said with a touch of asperity: "Michiko-san, your only defect is that you have none." She appeared taken aback by the remark...
Nixon was taken aback. He told Morhouse that the TV time was booked, that it would look strange to cancel his TV broadcast at the last minute without explanation. Nixon added that he would be willing to call off the telecast if Morhouse insisted but would have to explain publicly just why. The point: loyal G.O.P. voters in upstate New York might well resent the cancellation, not to mention the slight to national party unity. Morhouse hurriedly called back to say go ahead with the telecast. Right on schedule, Nixon delivered his TV speech-which even stony-hearted critics ruled...
...Actually, the Pennsy, not Phillips, was the injured party. It was Phillips, said Judge Kraft, who had "knowingly, maliciously and intentionally violated" SEC rules by secretly sending telegrams to two Swiss banks in an effort to have the banks withhold their proxies. Only slightly taken aback, Phillips announced that he would appeal-to demand that Pennsy's directors be required to pay from their own pockets the cost of fighting his attempt to get on the board...
...only West Germany would agree to "remain free of nuclear weapons." either on its own decision or by NATO agreement, the Soviet Union in event of war "would be prepared to abstain from using nuclear weapons against any object whatsoever in the Federal Republic." Brentano was taken somewhat aback by this specious proposal but quickly rebutted: "We will throw away all our weapons, of every kind, if the Soviet Union would do the same. Let us work towards a regularized disarmament agreement...
...stores) and Paul Hexter (son-in-law of car-rental Tycoon John Hertz). The Dodges knew little of the new owner; Mrs. Dodge said she met him once and found him "charming." When she heard he had been run out of Venezuela at gunpoint she was somewhat taken aback. "Oh!" she exclaimed. "He isn't a bad man, is he? Like Perón? He seemed so nice...