Word: aghast
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Most airline executives were aghast...
...Honest. Mrs. Ford's forthrightness immediately stirred up a summer storm of old-fashioned indignation. Dr. W.A. Criswell, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Dallas, the largest Southern Baptist congregation, declared himself "aghast" and added: "I cannot think that the First Lady of this land would descend to such a gutter type of mentality." Mormon Elder Gordon B. Hinckley called a press conference to support "chastity before marriage and fidelity after marriage." New York's Governor Hugh Carey, a Roman Catholic with twelve children, unctuously observed: "I guess I believe, in the words that Frankie [Sinatra] sings...
...ranch lands in the Powder River Basin. Hathaway also condoned the killing of golden eagles and favored building a jetport in Grand Teton National Park. Neither is a happy precedent, since the Interior Secretary is responsible for protecting U.S. wildlife and the national parks. Some 20 environmental groups were aghast at this record and immediately protested Hathaway's Cabinet nomination...
...profoundest respect for objects and people, and a deep disrespect for most institutions ("I think the government is a kind of joke really"). He was aghast when he heard of fellow "documentary" photographers rearranging objects or people to suit their own needs. This to him violated the subject's integrity: he felt that the only control the photographer should have--the only way of imposing himself on his subject--was camera angle and distance, and that even these should be used with care. But even these he forsook when in brief intervals he took to the Chicago streets with...
...Congress, sentiment is growing to carry the discount trend to its logical conclusion and deregulate fares completely, leaving the carriers free to charge whatever they please rather than requiring them to seek Civil Aeronautics Board approval for every change. Airline leaders, however, are aghast at the thought of going that far. IATA Director General Knut Hammarskjold calls deregulation, which would affect international as well as domestic flights, "suicide." TWA Chairman Charles Tillinghast predicts that it would lead to a "breakdown of the system as we know it," and eventually to "pressure for subsidies and nationalization." Although few people...