Word: aghast
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...Mercedes-Benz 450 SLC. And Nixon remembers giving a Lincoln Continental to Brezhnev at Camp David. Brezhnev's eyes shone when he saw the car. Without warning, he waved Nixon into the front seat, took the wheel and roared off as Secret Service men looked on aghast. He and Nixon hurtled down a narrow, twisting Catoctin...
...reward, the ruler promises her the hand of any noble in his court. Helena chooses Bertram. Aghast, the snobbish youth flees to the Florentine wars, leaving word that he will only acknowledge Helena as his wife when she secures the ancestral ring on his ringer and is pregnant with his child. To cut the Gordian knot of the plot, Helena achieves just that...
...Lyman says her office is receiving a different variety of panicked phone calls this year--ones from families which, though not qualifying or not even applying for aid, are aghast at the heights to which tuition has risen. She describes frequently panicked freshman parents who "have many other expenses, a whole lifestyle, and here they are three months before making a substantial payment. It's not a good time to be planning...
...myths need to be examined, explained, dismantled. But how equipped for the task is someone who is deeply offended by the myth, someone so aghast that he almost ends up belittling its real impact? The Kennedy myth had, and continues to have, a strong impact on people, evidence that it fills some important psychic need. Although Wills' book is excellent for its assessment of the Kennedys' lasting, and crippling effect on American politics, it is on too high a moral plane to ever come down and grapple with the myth on its own terms. He derides the idea of heroes...
Weinberger said little until his plane reached the Jordanian capital of Amman. But then he declared that he "favors" the sale of U.S. mobile Hawk antiaircraft missiles and F-16 fighters to Jordan. The Israelis were aghast at the prospect of these weapons in the hands of an unfriendly state that has rejected all overtures to join the Camp David peace process. Haig, returning to the U.S. from a trip to Portugal, Spain, Morocco, and Rumania, just as Weinberger was getting back from Amman, hastened to assert that "there was no specific request [from Jordan for U.S. arms], no offer...