Word: aback
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Aclose friend of mine has been living with his high school sweetheart out of wedlock for nearly three years now. Not long ago I asked him if he and his girlfriend had plans to marry in the near future. I was taken aback by his matter- of-fact response: "No," he said simply, "we don't feel there's any need to rush into something that important...
...taken aback and very disappointed that any student group would have to contact any administrator just to survey this campus," said Moynahan, who is also a Crimson editor. "I don't concede the point to this day that either The Crimson or the IOP needs the permission of the administration to conduct a poll of students on race, on grapes, on whatever...
...really surprised that [anti-boycott students] were out there writing to The Crimson, putting up posters and all the other things they did," said RAZA President Gonzalo Martinez '98. "I was taken aback by the loud advocacy of conservative grape-eaters...
...taken aback by the one-sided nature of your article on nursing homes. No doubt thousands of caring, hard-working, underpaid staff members were humiliated by this piece. You failed to take into account the homes' heavy regulatory burdens, the fairness issue with fines and recent research indicating that nursing- home quality is improving. You should have emphasized that there are approximately 15,000 nursing homes other than those of the troubling Creekside variety. RICHARD L. PECK, Editor Nursing Homes Magazine Cleveland, Ohio...
...citizen being tried in a legal system that had previously been reserved for such spectacular but very American melodramas as the O.J. Simpson saga. When the guilty verdict was announced, an audience watching in a pub in Woodward's home village of Elton, in northern England, was so taken aback that for a time all that could be heard was the amplified sound of the teenager crying in the courtroom 3,000 miles away. The American justice system came under attack. Alarmed by Leone's masterful summation, some complained that the defense should have had the final word...