Word: aback
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...service path and discovered the glove. "My heart started pounding," Fuhrman told the court. "I realized what I had finally found" -- presumably the possible key to a double murder. The officer stressed that it was not something he had been looking for: "I was kind of taken aback by the whole event," he said. "We didn't go up there for this...
...Clinton to Inman, a Bush voter who didn't much feel like returning to Washington. "The President had to talk him into it," says a senior White House official. "It wasn't about defense or budgets. They just needed to get to know each other." The admiral was taken aback when the White House contacted him about the job two weeks ago. He agreed to take it only after he was satisfied that Clinton was personally committed to building a strong, forward-looking national-security policy with bipartisan support. Though impressed by Clinton, Inman still hesitated until his old friend...
...this day, whenever I am introduced to other Koreans, I meet with odd reactions. Some people give me a knowing smile as if to say, "Hmmm, we'd better not cross you." Others are genuinely shocked and taken aback; it's as though I'm being introduced to a Haitian as Jean-Paul "Baby Doc" Duvalier. I've had to deal with this kind of thing my whole life...
...fact, Hall and Stillman were totally taken aback by the furor they created. TIME correspondent Ann Blackman asked Hall if he feared that his work would create a backlash against this kind of research. "I revere human life," said Hall, his voice choking with emotion. "I respect people's concerns and feelings. But we have not created human life or destroyed human life in this experiment." To Hall and Stillman, human cloning is simply the next step in the logical progression that started with in-vitro fertilization and is driven by a desire to relieve human suffering -- in this case...
Moulin said she paid $1,250, a full month's rent for the apartment. "They said they had no policy, and that I had to pay anyway," she said. "I was taken aback at first...