Word: aback
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...copy of the December issue of the Atlantic Monthly (circ. 335,800). David Stockman, Director of the President's Office of Management and Budget, was on the cover. Had the President, asked Stahl, seen Stockman's critique of his economic program in the magazine? The President, taken aback, replied that he would ask Stockman what he had said. He did. And the furor that followed (yeeNATION)provided a closeup look at the symbiotic relationship between those unnamed government officials quoted every day on the front pages of newspapers and the reporters who cover them...
Yale fans who have witnessed conventional offense for most of the season will be taken aback by Harvard's quarterback-in-motion play the formation the Crimson uses most frequently to pass. Backup quarterback Donny Allard--agile and strong-armed--takes the snap, former split end Cuccia flares wide. Callinan looks for a screen pass, and referees try to discern if the play is legal. Quite often, the zebras have decided otherwise. Harvard must avoid its perennial propensity for penalties if it is to stay in The Game against the powerful Elis...
...moment, he must be honest, passionate, bitingly sarcastic, or so completely detatched that he can recite with a curiously third-person coldness a list of murders statistics or tales of his own bloody crimes. Lamar handles the transformations so naturally and so strikingly that the audience is taken aback, both startled and pulled along to see what's coming next. Lamar infuses the role with such power, such a sureness in the timbre of his voice, that he truly seems caught up and twisted between two worlds. His stare, even in searching the audience, somehow remains within himself...
...fact, the cadets like "marching around" so much that when Hetland suggested to his students that they devise an alternative "Method for teaching leadership and followship" an overwhelming majority said they would rather stick with the traditional system. "I was really taken ,aback," Hetland says. "I'm dead set against drill myself-in the Air Force you just don't spend time marching around in fields...
Thus Rather was visibly taken aback when, at 10:26 a.m. E.D.T., Cairo Bureau Manager Scotti Williston told him by phone, on the air, that her sources were reporting "that the President has passed away." Wary of repeating the egregious blunder that all three networks made in reporting the death of Reagan Press Secretary James Brady on the day the President was shot last March, an agitated Rather kept pressing Williston, hard. Were her sources reliable? They were, said the imperturbable Williston, who, before her assignment to Cairo in 1979, was CBS News' deputy foreign editor. No official word...