Word: aback
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...read with great fascination your feature articles on the various Undergraduate Council presidential candidates, and I was taken aback by what seems a most noticeable difference in the quality of reportage devoted to the different campaigns. It is clear that, while the teams writing about Darling-Patel and Plants-Wikler were quite thorough in their investigations, the articles devoted to the other two-person teams were sorely lacking...
Seton, who says he has spent a year trying to build healthy relationships within the administration, was taken aback--and quickly devised a rebuttal...
Gervasio A. Lamas '74--whose daughter was robbed in the third Matthews wave--said he was taken aback by the crime and has an appointment to speak with Nathans this morning...
...strange to once again have time, to tackle my work in earnest, not just praying to finish, but wanting to learn. I was interested--thrilled, really--with my second semester classes. I was only taken aback when I remembered that the cost of this renewed academic vigor was that hellish first semester...
Despite years of involvement and influence in the American political system, Gergen confesses he was taken aback by the HLS invitation to be the Class Day speaker...