Word: aback
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Mark, chubby and pale, stood just a little shorter than average height. When he first met up with others in the SM scene, they were often taken aback by his round baby-face and glasses...
YOUR LATEST BOOK IS TITLED FAMILY FIRST. WHAT DO YOU SEE AS THE BIGGEST PROBLEM FACING PARENTS TODAY? They're intimidated. Life is moving so fast and there's so much competition for influencing their children that they're a little taken aback by it. Parents aren't the only influence in their kids' lives, so they need to be the best, the loudest, the clearest and the closest...
...defying spring of a pole vaulter, even the twirling toes of a flock of synchronized swimmers. So when Mongolia's sole female marathoner, Luvsanlkhundeg Otgonbayar, appeared at the entrance of a massive marble stadium unveiled in 1896 for Athens' first modern Olympics, it was impossible not to be taken aback by her almost imperceptible pace. More than an hour had passed since Japan's Mizuki Noguchi, a 40-kg wisp, had fluttered into the stadium, vomited and smoothed back her hair to accept the gold with a time of 2:26:20. Even earlier, 16 competitors, including British world-record...
...economic, in the form of subsidizing a Manhattan Project to end our dependence on oil. We can start now and lead the world, or wait for the oil to run out and watch other countries take advantage. Bill Zawacki Beaverton, Oregon, U.S. Fantasy and Reality I was taken aback by Richard Schickel's rather brusque film review of King Arthur [July 26]. Schickel seems to think that director Antoine Fuqua's vision, with its emphasis on realism, is the film's downfall. Instead, Schickel believes that "what these movies really need are cheeky athletes as their heroes" and in addition...
...mutually hostile--constituencies. The divestment was backed by the liberal Presbyterian majority, which traditionally tempers its affirmation of Israel's right to exist with concern for Palestinian welfare. The margin for continuing Messianic funding was provided by an increasingly powerful evangelical minority. Some church activists seem honestly taken aback by the two measures being linked in controversy. It is, says conservative leader the Rev. Parker Williamson, "a disjunction, almost like frying ice." But apparently even fried ice can exert a chill. --By David Van Biema