Word: aghast
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Vaguely Chicago had realized that it was a longstanding practice among the local banditti to terrorize witnesses used against them by prosecutors. But citizens were aghast at this public admission of and surrender to the fact. A few days later Gangster McGeoghegan, born in Chicago's criminal spawning grounds "Back of the Yards," was reindicted. Witness Bere, promised a police escort, told a grand jury that he would again appear for the prosecution. Next job was up to Chicago's detectives : find Daniel McGeoghegan...
Other universities, the Press and Yale undergraduates were respectively astonished, interested, aghast. The undergraduate Yale Daily News printed a statement from undergraduates Albert ("Albie") Booth, Edward Rotan and John S. Wilbur...
...Aghast at the implications of that kiss, Julie send Alison away...
Prayers & Sympathy. In Pasadena, Calif. Albert Einstein said he thought kidnapping showed a lack of "social sanity." Law-abiding Londoners, aghast at a crime directed against "the American approximation of the Prince of Wales," could not understand why a Prince of Wales would leave his much-publicized infant unguarded. President Ortiz Rubio ordered the Mexican Army to watch the border for the kidnappers. The Changchow Merchants' Guild of Peiping sent sympathy. Episcopal Bishop Manning of New York ordered his flock to pray for the infant's safe return. School children and 500,000 Companions of the Forest of America also...
Sirs: Frankly, I am aghast at the ripples caused by my brief, pediculously composed note re the effect of a TIME broadcast on 7-year-old Stephen Sarasohn (TIME, Feb. i). A life insurance agent who too reads TIME has presumed upon the mutual weakness to haunt my busy days with an Investment Trust Policy for the benefit of Steve. Somewhere in New England is a Maurice Sarasohn who wonders in an interesting communication-whether we are separate limbs of the same family tree. At least a score of Detroiters have commented on that letter of mine. . . . Now comes...