Word: aback
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...asked, somewhat taken aback...
Dole spoke last. He put forward his withered right arm, injured in 1945 by German mortar and machine-gun fire, and looked Saddam in the eye. "I have a daily reminder of the futility of war," Dole said. Recalls Simpson: "Saddam didn't respond to that. He was taken aback...
Still taken aback by the suddenness of Mockler's death, most Corporation members are simply filled with regret at the loss of a man with "the utmost integrity," Scott said...
Even the funny old world's leaders were taken aback at the spectacle of a head of government being challenged, then brought down by her own party. When she arrived in Paris for the summit on European security on Sunday, Thatcher was a virtual institution, the doyenne of chiefs of state and the longest- serving British Prime Minister in more than 160 years. There were rumblings * of discontent within the ruling Conservative Party, but she was confident she could keep them muffled. Within three days, however, Thatcher rushed back to London bearing fatal political wounds inflicted in her absence...
...competition has stolen away some of Citicorp's top-drawer clients. The bank was taken aback recently when it lost Marriott Hotels, a longtime corporate customer, to a group of Japanese rivals. Citi has also watched nervously as competitors expanded their American beachheads. Britain's Barclays Bank is enlarging its U.S. operations to target multinational firms, many of them Citicorp customers. Of all the rivals on Citi's turf, Reed considers Deutsche Bank "the biggest and most formidable" because of its commanding presence in Europe...