Word: aback
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chuckled, promised to see what he could do for the boy. "But I can only stay in Argentina if you bring my family here," said El Galleguito. "How big a family do you have?" asked Peron, taken aback. "Mother, father, and 19 brothers and sisters," said El Galleguito. Perón said he'd think it over...
Vishinsky thanked her, handed the bird to an aide, and marched inside the building. "Are you going to keep my bird?" Anny asked. "Of course I'm keeping it," replied Vishinsky. Anny was taken aback. She was even more chagrined to find herself erroneously identified in Parisian papers next day as a representative of a Communist women's organization. Terribly upset, Anny bought 59 more doves, sent one to each U.N. delegation (except, of course, the Russians). It wasn't the first time a Russian had grabbed a peace dove from the unsuspecting West...
Rivera was not the least taken aback. Pointing out that one of anthropology's favorite activities is reconstructing whole races from a few scattered bones, he snorted contemptuously, "the opinion of Mr. Romero is anti-anthropological...
...whole nation was taken aback by the news that 90 West Point cadets were charged with...
...checking up. One Theodore A. Swinarski was listed on the payroll. Roberts called at the home of State Representative Theodore Anthony Swinarski, boldly fired a shot in the dark: "Is it true that you make $50 a night working at Chicago Downs as a mutuel inspector?" Taken aback, Swinarski cried: "Why, it was only $25 a night." Moreover, he demanded, why did Roberts pick on him when at least seven other state legislators were doing the same thing? Reporter Roberts clucked sympathetically as he noted down the names given him by indignant Representative Swinarski...