Word: aghast
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...change reflects growing concern over the kind of prejudicial publicity that might sway jurors and influence convictions. Although the court has yet to work out an accommodation between the constitutional rights of free press and fair trial, lawyers are proposing crime-news curbs that leave the U.S. press aghast. The press is now all but accusing the bar of yearning to imitate the British system of jailing errant editors for contempt...
...World War I was an idealistic young State Department aide whose distinguished diplomatic career as Franklin Roosevelt's Ambassador to Soviet Russia and France still lay in the future. He served briefly on Wilson's peace commission in Paris but was aghast at what he considered the President's capitulation to the vengeful demands of Germany's European conquerors. Moreover, Bullitt had extracted from Lenin what he took to be a promise to limit the spread of Bolshevism substantially to Moscow and its environs. When he broughtthis message to Wilson, the President showed no interest...
Most of Winchester's residents have never heard of Pitirim A. Sorokin or his Center for Research in Creative Altruism. Sorokin lives a quiet life, befitting a retired college professor. His neighbors would probably be aghast to hear they are living next to a man once on speaking terms with Lenin and Trotsky, who was sentenced to death and then banished from his country, and who has produced some of sociology's most important "yarns...
...effect, a welcome-to-the-fold gesture, for the performance was Nadien's solo debut as the new concertmaster of the New York Philharmonic. When his appointment was announced last February, some Philharmonic fans were aghast. Nadien had never played in a major symphony orchestra before, and had spent most of the past dozen years in recording studios playing for crooners, rock 'n' rollers, Muzak and TV jingles. Still, despite his commercial coloration, he has long been respected by fellow musicians as one of America's most outstanding fiddlers; he is legendary for his ability...
Daunted Defendants. Police are aghast. "The public has a right to know how bad a criminal is," protests Boston's Commissioner Edmund L. McNamara. "The more the press blasts the serious criminal, the better we like it," says Chief Edward F. Leiss of Metuchen, N.J. "I don't think the police are giving out too much information about accused persons," adds Commissioner Russell T. Beebe of East St. Louis, Ill. "I don't think they're giving out enough." Says Houston Prosecutor Carol Vance: "The public has a right to know what's going...