Word: aback
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...Everyone was kind of taken aback by it," Harvard coach Ronn Tomassoni said. "It certainly puts things in proper perspective...
People on the street eminently dressed in business suits and carrying briefcases seemed taken aback by the gathering. In their eyes, the 1980s "me decade" was supposed to have thoroughly put to death the days of student activism. What has happened instead is that Newt Gingrich has given student activism a surprisingly sudden resurrection. Thanks, Newt...
Students said they were taken aback when Frank proceeded to implement the change halfway through class...
...liberally polarized agenda alienated many students by forcing them to vote for a platform with many extreme elements (i.e., the mandatory hiring of union staff); thus, even though many voters may have respected PUCC's drive to make the council a more politically active body, they were taken aback by the brand of political activity that PUCC seemed to espouse. In many cases, students were simply unwilling to accept far-left planks of the PUCC platform that seemed disagreeable...
...still slightly open, he told me. Some Republican Guard units and T-72 tanks could slip away. I told him to keep hitting them, and I would get back to him. I passed Norm's report to the President and the others. Although we were all taken slightly aback, no one felt that what we had heard changed the basic equation. The back of the Iraqi army had been broken. What was left of it was retreating north. There was no need to fight a battle of annihilation to see how many more combatants on both sides could be killed...