Word: aback
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WORK, SEX, AND RELIGION When Stephen Colbert asked Mansfield if a woman’s role was to be family breadwinner in a recent appearance on his Comedy Central television show, Mansfield was taken aback...
West European political leaders and defense experts were taken aback by Reagan's out-of-the-blue suggestion that the entire deterrent doctrine be reassessed. One main worry: such a strategic shift might "decouple" America's defense of itself from that of its NATO allies. "I fear this will be an issue that could become extremely divisive between the Europeans and the U.S. because it is tending toward Fortress America," said British Colonel Jonathan Alford of the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London. "The proposal intends to put a bubble over the U.S., and that would be followed...
...Eric Weiner. He was in town researching a book about happiness, trying to get to the bottom of why Icelanders consistently say they are content in a country they have nicknamed the "Ice Cube." I happened to live on the Ice Cube at the time, but I was taken aback when Weiner asked me, point blank, "Are you happy here...
...obviously it is exciting. We are both bringing so many more people into the campaign. They are energized, really very passionate about this campaign. Voters want this to continue. They don't want it to be over. I think that surprised a lot of the observers who were taken aback - number one because I did so well yesterday - but also in some of the public polling. More than two-thirds of Democrats say "No, This has got to go on." And they need it to go on, because they are still trying to make up their minds and that...
...Kosovo. Though a new Balkan war seems unlikely, Kosovo's birth is proving messier than its backers expected. And Serbia, which had been edging toward membership of the European Union and NATO, instead faces a degree of international isolation not seen since strongman Slobodan Milosevic was in power. Taken aback by all this anger and acrimony, Goran Svilanovic, a former Foreign Minister now working on regional cooperation, admits: "We didn't see this coming...