Word: aghast
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...guests were aghast. Most had never been to New Bedford a scan 40 miles away. Most feared it as ugly, riot-torn, dangerous; as somehow impure and of a different species of America. No, they said, they would play their political games in the suburbs where politics is neat and clean and genteel, and have nothing to do with those ugly places where the work people did made smoke come out of factory chimneys...
...next day, we heard anguished screams from the colleges--Dartmouth. Princeton, and so on," McCloskey reminisced recently. The private colleges stood aghast at the notion of requiring sex-balanced students, despite the increased funding, and decided to let the Representatives know. Letters, telegrams, calls and visits poured into the offices of the bill's friends and allies...
...because of a bathing suit. The one-piece white swimsuit was worn by nubile blonde Becky Marshall, 17, as she won a Fourth-of-July beauty contest to name "Miss Spirit of America." Trouble was, Becky's father, Charles Marshall, was the minister of the Hobbs Street church. Aghast, the elders of the church fired Marshall. When 251 of the 371-member congregation petitioned for his reinstatement, the elders refused to budge. Now more than 200 of Marshall's supporters have followed him into exile to open a new church. As for Becky, she's going...
...borrowers who were very tough in resisting his demands for repayment. Worse yet, a few months ago, Manny reportedly announced that he wanted to divorce his wife to marry a flashy blonde modeling student he had set up with an apartment and a new Cadillac. The Mafiosi were aghast. For one thing, divorce suits often expose embarrassing financial arrangements. For another, jilted wives have a way of blabbing their troubles. Don Carlo's decision was final: paramour yes, divorce no. On May 18 Manny vanished...
Chiang Kaishek, Nationalist China's 84-year-old President, seemed aghast when it was first proposed to him that Vice President C.K. Yen, 66, resign his added post of Premier and that the generalissimo name his own son, Chiang Ching-kuo, 62, to fill the vacancy. Would that not, the Gimo demanded, be unseemly? Would it not seem to be the beginning of a dynasty...