Word: aback
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...NLRB took University attorneys aback by deciding that Med Area personnel did in fact compose a distinct group. At the time, Harvard lawyers felt sure the board would agree with their stance that the bargaining unit would be inappropriate because their interests were the same as the rest of the University's secretaries and technicians...
...Taken Aback...
...vain name for his own inquisitive mind?" Byars will answer no. He insists that there is a real Question Center where he collects questions, and even a skeptic would be rash to doubt that such a man collects questions. If you ask a question, he steps as if taken aback, and says, "Oh, you have given me a question, how nice!" He "exalts in the interrogative," and delights in the very transaction of giving and receiving questions. He collects questions simply "to keep them and sometimes to give them away," but not to answer or ponder them...
...hinterlands of Nepal, conquering yet another stretch of the Himalayas. When administration officials contacted Hufstedler upon her return to the United States, she assumed they wanted to talk legal shop. But when the officials suggested that Hufstedler take the 13th chair in the Carter cabinet, she was taken aback. But now, almost four months since her December 6 inauguration as the nation's first Secretary of Education, Shirley Hufstedler is too busy to even think about hiking in Nepal...
...score after one period was 2-2. Harvard had nothing to show for probably one of the best periods it played all year; B.C., though taken aback by the aggressiveness of their opposition, adjusted accordingly and eventually wore Harvard down. A frustrating evening for the Crimson. Cleary: "We just haven't capitalized on the opportunities. We've had good opportunities--I don't mean shots from the blue line or from behind the net, but real opportunities to score...