Word: aback
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Owings, but art abounds in the house-paintings by Morris Graves, drawings by Buffet, a candelabra by Seymour Lipton. When someone remarked that the house, with its redwood sheathing and massive chimney, was reminiscent of Frank Lloyd Wright, Nat Owings, a longtime aluminum-and-glass specialist, was taken aback, finally admitted: "Wright was a master of the organic philosophy of design. Perhaps anyone who reaches toward nature, or wants to meet nature on its own ground, would be bound to cross his path somewhere...
Even wily Proxy Fighter Alfons Landa, executive committee chairman of Fairbanks Whitney Corp., who helped Evans gain his place on the Crane board, was taken aback by Evans' maneuvers, questioned whether he was housecleaning too fast and hard. But Evans, who built Pittsburgh's H. K. Porter Co. from a money-losing locomotive manufacturer to a twelve-division, $137 million industrial combine, would hear none of it. Shuffling between his Greenwich, Conn, home and several cities, he worked harder and more ruthlessly to increase profits for Crane and solidify his power. Evans shifted about Crane's operations...
...passed, we should have all of our contracts end on a given date. We can call a primary strike all across the nation that will straighten out the employers once and for all." Hoffa's outrageous threat brought outraged reactions in the press and on Capitol Hill. Taken aback for once, Hoffa loudly denied that he had ever made such a statement. But no one was so stupid as to believe his denial. He had, in fact, made the statement into a microphone wired to a tape recorder, and there it all was, in Hoffa's voice...
...says the professor, who is somewhat taken aback by this...
False Position. Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro, who had been telling U.S. audiences that he flatly opposed Caribbean filibusters, knew all about the Panamanian plot, but was caught aback as the Arias-Fonteyn flop placed Panama in a spotlight of world attention. He ordered his brother, Armed Forces Chief Raúl Castro, to come to Houston for a private talk. The Castros sent a pair of their bearded officers to Panama to persuade the invaders to withdraw...