Word: aback
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...speech in China in 1998, a bright young American student stood up to ask a question. Why, Patrice Lumumba Ford wanted to know, had charges against Oliver North concerning the Iran-contra scandal been dropped during Bush's term in office nearly a decade earlier? Bush was taken aback by the directness of the question, according to several people present at the Johns Hopkins Nanjing Center...
Jennifer A. Follen, the first woman hired, said she “shrugged it off” when her boss warned her that people might be taken aback by her presence...
...taken aback to read that some people involved in clinical trials, especially pregnant women, did not find out about a medication's possible side effects before participating. A drug that is only in the testing stages should be regarded as unsafe until proved otherwise. It is outrageous that a physician would allow a pregnant woman to take part in a test. Are we so hungry for cures that we are willing to risk unborn human lives? JENNIFER HOYDICZ Ridgefield...
...young children hasn't changed," says Belkin. "Our expectations have. We were the generation who were told we could have everything." When women who were raised to believe they could rule the world suddenly find they no longer can--and sometimes no longer even want to--they're taken aback. Especially since all the training and education they have undertaken have left them ill prepared for mothering. As a result, they feel as if they are the first humans ever to try to scale that mountain...
Cole, unsure of how to accept the odd compliment, merely smiled and reflexively thanked the timer. Though he was slightly taken aback by the congratulatory greeting, it wasn’t the first time Cole had heard the “Harvard” angle before...