Word: aghast
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Japan's Imperial Household Agency, which keeps a little list of royal dos and don'ts, was aghast. As her parents, Crown Prince Akihito, 39, and Princess Michiko, 39, left Tokyo's Togu Palace for a ten-day official tour of Spain, their daughter, Nori, 4, planted on her mother's cheek the first public Imperial kiss. While the royal family does occasionally come out from behind its chrysanthemum curtain-Empress Nagako was recently permitted to exhibit her water-colors-such decadent occidentalism as kissing in public was unprecedented. However, it proved catching: arriving in Madrid...
...briskly and pointedly. As expected, Mitchell admitted sitting through three meetings, the first two as Attorney General, at which the bizarre and illegal political espionage plans of G. Gordon Liddy, then the Nixon re-election committee's chief counsel, were presented. Indignantly, Mitchell said he was "angered" and "aghast" at these plans. They were "a complete horror story" and "beyond the pale." Each time, he said, he clearly and flatly rejected the plans. He told Liddy to burn the charts outlining his initial schemes, which included the use of call girls, mugging squads and kidnaping...
Developers are aghast. Their most frequent complaint is that the state government should not become so much involved in any individual's private business. But Vermont intends to go even farther; next year its legislators will consider an Adirondack-style plan to order and shape future development, and thus save the state's greatest resource: unspoiled land...
...American living abroad, I am aghast when I return home to see the amount of food thrown away each week by average middle-class families in the U.S. And if less were spent on so-called junk foods (soft drinks, sweets and snacks) it seems to me that Americans could be eating steak for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Meat prices are too high, but Americans are spoiled and the rest of the world is unsympathetic...
...Hell's Kitchen finally surfaced to detail for a House subcommittee the Nixon Administration's minimum-wage bil−and with that single appearance, Brennan provoked a maxi-split with his old colleagues in the union movement. Said AFL-CIO President George Meany: "We are aghast that Brennan has so completely abandoned the trade-union principles he espoused for all of his life before coming to Washington." Jerry Wurf, president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, was more succinct. Brennan, he said, was "a son of a bitch...