Word: aback
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Many students who passed by said they were, in fact, taken aback...
...Nolan’s background in consulting brings a lot to the table.“She possesses a great ability to analyze data and to offer intelligent and insightful conclusions,” says committee member Joseph G. Grassi. But many long-time School Committee members were taken aback by Nolan’s April proposal to reallocate funds to schools. The proposal was presented only one meeting before the final vote. “She surprised us all,” Fantini says.However, Fantini also says that he thinks that Nolan’s proposal stems from...
...girl-on-girl, it can get especially ugly. Deborah Prothrow-Stith, co-author of Sugar & Spice and No Longer Nice: How We Can Stop Girls' Violence and professor of public health at the Harvard School of Public Health, meets with teachers and administrators around the country and is taken aback by what she hears. "Principals talk about not only the increased number of girl fights but also the savagery," she says. "One of them told me, 'We never had to call an ambulance here until girls started fighting...
...impeccable resumé, the dean basically tells her that she’s too nerdy for college (not cool enough for school), and that for the next few months, she should “get out there and experience being young.” At first, Opal is taken aback, but by the end of chapter two, she pulls it together and does what she has to do: ditches her old lunch table, trades the books in for looks, and with the help of her hyperactive parents, drafts a plan to become the most popular girl at Woodcliff High...
...that some people consider “transcendental” and holy? MANKOFF: That which is put forward without evidence can be dismissed without evidence. I mean, you know, people are building these incredible superstructures, whether it’s Judaism, Christianity, Islam—I was totally taken aback when I found out that limbo no longer existed. That something that never existed was now eliminated. I’m astounded by religion in general…It’s all silly to me. I’m confused how God made the beetles. Did he make...