Word: aghast
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last they set sail for home. On the way, Cinqé quarreled with the missionaries, the other Africans grew restive. At Sierra Leone, when they saw many of their countrymen, they flung off their clothes to show their tribal tattoos. The missionaries were aghast. Worse yet, some of the Africans deserted the mission, hit out for home. Cinqué went with them...
When he took over as the new chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, Washington Lawyer Edward F. Howrey looked aghast at the stack of documents (enough to fill a foot locker) that awaited his attention. Last week Howrey let it be known that he will ask the commission's staff to cut down the amount of material its chairman is supposed to read. Said he: "I had a nightmare the other night. I dreamed I was in a room stacked to the ceiling with files of official documents. I couldn't get out of the room until...
...next morning's papers headlined Velde's promise of an investigation of churches. The reaction was as unfavorable as anybody (except Velde) would have expected. Velde protested that he had been "misinterpreted," but even his fellow committee members were aghast at what he had actually said. The committee closed its doors and unanimously resolved that no new investigations would be announced or begun without approval of the full committee. Some Republicans in Congress were furious, and wanted to fire Velde from his chairmanship. Such talk ended abruptly when New York's Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. offered...
...that Operation Smack had been carefully planned and valuable. It would have been carried out if there had been no visitors. Responsible Congressmen, after inquiry at the Pentagon, agreed that the operation, despite its unfortunate code name, was in no sense a publicity stunt. Military commanders in Korea were aghast over the furor. General Joseph Lawton Collins, Army Chief of Staff, back in Washington after a trip to the Far East, blamed bad reporting, defended Operation Smack as "sound and legitimate." There would be, he said, "many more like it." It'was a safe bet that next time someone...
...malodorous closet, exclaimed, "The proprietor's got a bathroom all in marble." In the growing darkness, Baudouin lit his way with a flashlight. Boys ran ahead of him calling, "The King is coming." In one crumbling house, when the King wanted to go upstairs, the residents were aghast...