Word: aghast
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...estimated 145 million in the U.S.) have a bad effect on children, rolled up an impressive backing of parent-teacher associations and clubwomen. The publishers unwittingly did their bit. To prove to Parliament that their books were really good clean fun, they distributed them to M.P.s Many were so aghast at them that they hustled to support Fulton...
...Thursday afternoon early in October, a confused freshman listened to a short, friendly, round-faced man with a German accent explain Pythagoras' mathematical construction of the musical scale. Soon aghast with perplexity, he turned around and asked, "Is this Music I?" When told that it was Hindemith's History of Musical Theory, he departed in relieved embarrassment...
...independent Oilman J. Paul Getty offered a reported $9,000,000 down, a minimum royalty of $1,000,000 a year, a royalty of 55? a barrel, and a 25% interest in the company. This was so much more than any other company offered that oilmen were aghast. Furthermore, the world oil supply was already so ample that U.S. imports from the Middle East and Venezuela are being cut back. Last week there were signs that gasoline prices might soon be coming down. In view of that, Getty's rivals thought he would have to step some to make...
That was somewhat unfair to the late Prince Henry, Duke of Mecklenburg, Juliana's father, of whom the Princess was very fond. Prince Henry was far more tolerant than Wilhelmina. Once, Juliana was secretly smoking with several ladies-in-waiting when the door was thrown open imperiously. Aghast, the girls expected to see Wilhelmina. But when it turned out to be Juliana's father, she ran to embrace him, crying: "It's only Mecklenburg...
Doctors were aghast at an eight-degree jump last night as the patient sat with a thermometer between blanched lips and a Daily Record (Payoff Edition) clutched in hand...