Word: aback
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...liberally polarized agenda alienated many students by forcing them to vote for a platform with many extreme elements (i.e., the mandatory hiring of union staff); thus, even though many voters may have respected PUCC's drive to make the council a more politically active body, they were taken aback by the brand of political activity that PUCC seemed to espouse. In many cases, students were simply unwilling to accept far-left planks of the PUCC platform that seemed disagreeable...
...still slightly open, he told me. Some Republican Guard units and T-72 tanks could slip away. I told him to keep hitting them, and I would get back to him. I passed Norm's report to the President and the others. Although we were all taken slightly aback, no one felt that what we had heard changed the basic equation. The back of the Iraqi army had been broken. What was left of it was retreating north. There was no need to fight a battle of annihilation to see how many more combatants on both sides could be killed...
Some program activities have impacted the students more than others, Calac said. "Some have been really taken aback by the shadowing," he said...
...Karen [Samuelson, one of the students,] was really enthralled by the neurosurgery. She was very taken ,aback by it, just for the sheer excitement ofit, and actually viewing a human brain and seeingthe process unfold before her eyes," he said...
...year has been noticeably more virulent than that of the University's other faculties. It seems that while the faculty of the Graduate School of Education and the School of Public Health were well-informed as to what was going on during the entire benefits process, FAS was taken aback by the task force's recommendations last year...