Word: aghast
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...citizenry thronged the Plaza Murillo, not to gape at the bullet-shattered facade of the Presidential Palace-nor even to stare at the Junta members working inside the smashed windows of the second floor-but to attend High Mass at the Cathedral next door. La Paz is bewildered and aghast at the violence of the last weekend. There has been an immense religious revival. At last Friday's Mass for the dead of both sides, the Plaza was absolutely packed. Even the men knelt to the Host, a rare phenomenon in Spanish America...
Boner. In Salt Lake City, Utah University Student Donald Williams' pup followed him to school one day, was found by aghast professors asleep outside the geology department, blissfully nuzzling a rare, well-gnawed, prehistoric bone from the university's much-prized collection...
...world this week were the seven members of the UNO committee to choose a site for the world capital. After 29 days of being wined, dined, high-pressured and deluged with mail by ambitious mayors and governors, they finally announced their choice - and discovered that the chosen community was aghast...
Soon a familiar and unmistakable figure among New Deal Turks young & old. "Prich" had even the most bumptious of them aghast at his energy and his good-natured brass. On any point in economics, politics, history, the law or cocktail-mixing, an opinion from "Prich" came down with the crashing finality of a round from a 16-inch naval gun. No doubts assailed...
...quavered. "I objected to the phrase in question. ... I imagined that it had been deleted, so that I was aghast when it came over...