Word: aback
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...each other that "salvation-is-just-around-the-corner" -- but found only repeated clobbering around that bend. It is hard (even for them) to avoid feeling that History is with the other team: one begins to discount their wishful optimism. A triumph such as the YAF rally takes one aback: young people are supposed to be liberal, and New York is hardly a reactionary stronghold to begin with. One wonders if there might really be, as the YAF leaders claim, a great upsurge in rightist sentiment among students...
...Taken aback at first, the flannel-mouthed females who have trademarked the New Orleans school rebellion turned up at school to scream at the youngsters. White housewives picketed the Walgreen's drugstore where John Thompson worked as a $73-a-week clerk, and he lost his job. (Later, Walgreen officials insisted that Thompson had asked for a transfer.) The landlady ordered the Thompson family to get out of their $70-a-month apartment. Without telling anyone where they were going, John Thompson and his family took a load of wet wash off the line, packed the rest of their...
Brown was stalled on three plays, and Barry punted from his own 28. Hatch acted as though he were going to catch the ball, until the last split second, when he nobly deferred to his cohort, Armstrong, Needless to say, Armstrong was somewhat taken aback, and the ball bounced between the two men. Hatch gave chase, and succeeded in touching the ball, after which Jim Thompson recovered for Brown on the Harvard...
When a forester from West Rupert, Vt. wrote a letter to the major state newspapers announcing his candidacy for the Democratic Senatorial nomination early in 1958, party leaders were, to say the least, taken aback. When election returns subsequently showed that on $2,000 and the disarmament issue William Meyer had broken the 104-year Republican hold on Vermont's Congressional seat, there was a good deal of incredulous blinking. And when Meyer loomed up in the House calling for a profound re-examination of the government's Cold War efforts, the Congress and the whole country began stirring...
Nixon: I was somewhat taken aback by Mr. Kennedy's final words. He is running down our great country at a time when we can't afford to be divided. More disturbingly, he used a word starting with "st" and ending with "ks" to describe the situation created by President Eisenhower. That kind of word is not becoming to a candidate for the highest office in our great country. That kind of word should not be used to describe the position of the United States to a television audience of mothers and children. I only went to a state university...