Word: aghast
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...London, but an attempt to break the bank at Monte Carlo last week was somewhat less successful. When three Saudi Arabian princes, including Minister of the Interior Fahd ibn Abdul Aziz, dropped more than $6 million on the roulette wheel at the Monte Carlo Casino, even jaded Monegasques were aghast...
...critics are also aghast at Hupp's reduction of Boys Town's population from 700 to the present more manageable 510, a move that has forced its athletic teams to compete in a small-school class. The school's chorus director warned that disgruntled donors would sue if more Boys Town money is spent on anything but "caring for homeless and neglected boys...
Jacques Yves Cousteau, the famed French underwater pioneer, is aghast at the result. "I'd do anything to torpedo that conference," he says. "Caracas offered a unique opportunity, an opportunity to use the seas as a link between all nations in the interests of peace." Instead, he finds, "the conference is returning to the Middle Ages, to policies of egotistical nationalism, with every country yanking at the bedclothes and the hell with the others. It's tragic...
...large, legal and law enforcement professionals were aghast at the damning evidence against Nixon. Chicago Professor Philip B. Kurland, one of the nation's leading experts on the Constitution and a consultant to the Senate Watergate Committee, said that he found "strong evidence" in the transcripts that Nixon was guilty of inducing his aides to commit perjury and of obstructing justice?both indictable crimes and therefore impeachable offenses by Nixon's own definition. Kurland added: "I can't find either ambiguity or any evidence which tends to exonerate him." Dean Michael Severn of Columbia University Law School looked closely...
...million, said federal officials. Reserve promptly upped the estimate to $575 million, a figure that Judge Lord scrutinized and then branded as "blatantly inflated." On March 1, an Armco executive admitted that Reserve Mining had in fact prepared four or five on-land disposal plans. The judge was aghast. He charged the company with deliberately stalling the trial in the hope of getting the Government to step in and pay for the cleanup...