Word: aghast
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...usual, the farmers were among the first to arrive on the scene. Some 1,500 members of the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association gathered to denounce a prospective increase in interest for REA loans. They were joined by another veteran lobby, the National Farmers Union, which is aghast at the President's abolition of the Rural Environmental Assistance Program, a durable piece of pork barrel that distributes $225 million a year among all 50 states. So successful were the lobbyists' initial efforts that the House Agriculture Committee quickly reported out a bill that would require the President...
...lush cash assets ($78 million at last count), a credit line of $100 million and a huge real estate inventory-all of which the supremely confident Bluhdorn may think he can put to better use than the supermarket chain's stodgy management. A. & P.'s bosses were aghast, and Chairman William Kane promised to oppose vigorously Bluhdorn's tender offer...
There had never been a case quite like it, and Israelis were understandably aghast. In a continuing police dragnet, 46 persons were arrested and interrogated; they faced charges of either spying for Syria's Deuxieme Bureau (G2) or knowing about the spy ring and not reporting it. The majority were Arabs, but four of those arrested were Jews. Most shocking of all, the leader of the ring and another prominent member were not only Jews but Sabras-native-born Israelis...
...venial and not carnal, they are still exposed. A bishop, on his way to give a dying man absolution, meets a peasant woman who whispers, "Father, I want to tell you something. I don't like Jesus Christ...Ever since I was a little child, I have hated him." Aghast, the bishop asks, "What? Such a kind, gentle God? How is this possible?" After the bishop administers the last sacraments to a man, who, it happens, killed his father and mother, saying to the sinner, "God in his kindness forgives the most hardened criminals," he then murders...
Parlor Pig. Green Springs' 200 residents were aghast, as were other true-blue Virginians. They foresaw that the prison would not only deface the pastoral area but also attract new housing projects for guards and motels for visitors. It was, residents often said, like "leading the pig into the parlor." Architects, historical societies and garden clubs bombarded state and federal officials with indignant letters. If the prison were built, said one, it would be "an affront to the past and an insult to the future." The area around such important houses as Boswell's Tavern, a supposed haunt...