Word: aghast
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Viewers were aghast. No, not at TV hostess KATHIE LEE GIFFORD's mawkish reports of her son Cody's every hiccup and hangnail. They're used to that. Last week, however, labor activist Charles Kernaghan testified in Congress that the Wal-Mart clothing line bearing Kathie Lee's name is stitched together by children in Honduras who work for 31 cents an hour. As co-host Regis Philbin flinched, Gifford launched into a teary, it's-not-my-fault, TV hissy fit: "You can say I'm ugly, you can say I'm not talented, but when...
...special talent for avoiding relationships by moving quickly past groups of people and slamming the door behind him," says Patrick McIntosh, another of the suite mates. Kaczynski's room was a swamp; the others finally called in the housemaster, the legendary Master of Eliot House John Finley, who was aghast. "I swear it was one or two feet deep in trash," McIntosh says. "It had an odor to it. Underneath it all were what smelled like unused cartons of milk...
...dough (high-gluten flour and yeast) for 60 seconds and then bake for about 15 minutes, a process that delivers a soft, chewy interior and a golden brown, crunchy exterior. Some mass producers, such as Einstein, have replaced boiling with 15 seconds of intense steaming, leaving some traditionalists aghast...
This theatrical device allows Albee to explore a central issue of aging: Which is our true self--the person we start out as or the person we become? Or does it lie somewhere in the middle? Of course, they all combine to form one person, but C is aghast to see what she will become and A is bemused by her younger, idealistic self, while B shares both vantage points. C cries out, "I will not become you! I deny you!" A responds, "You all deny me. Well, I deny...
...agencies before any politically tinted situations," charges Pierre Pradier, a former WHO official. On a mission to the Israeli-occupied West Bank, Pradier says, he found Israeli and Palestinian doctors eager to meet to discuss health issues there. But when he proposed that WHO arrange such meetings, Geneva was aghast that the agency might seem to be interfering in Arab-Israeli political disputes. WHO asserts that all this happened before 1990, and it has since taken an active role in helping solve health problems in the Israeli-occupied areas...