Word: aghast
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Most Britons were aghast. Winston Churchill, the late Prime Minister's grandson and M.P. for the Stretford district where Powell spoke, called such sentiments "insane, venomous outpourings." Wolverhampton Laborite Renee Short was more explicit. She accused Powell of purveying twaddle and advised: "Belt up, you big bore...
...America's intellectuals make connections while they're on the speaking circuit. From there Wolfe slides into a smug harangue about why socialism is ignored in America. We live the good life here--we're in the midst of what Wolfe calls a "happiness explosion"--and he's aghast that anyone might not think the way he does...
...dawn Monday, the doctors decided to call in outside help. One of them summoned Dr. [Victor Manuel] Montemayor [house doctor for a number of Acapulco resort hotels]. He arrived at the Hughes penthouse at 6 a.m. He spent two hours examining the emaciated billionaire and later said he was "aghast" at his condition. He was shown the blood analysis disclosing the failure of Hughes' kidneys, and his own examination showed that Hughes was drastically dehydrated, with a pulse so weak that the Mexican doctor could get no reading in several attempts to take his blood pressure...
...aghast to be offended at her estimation of my potential I remarked that she wasn't the same girl whose hot snails I'd admired in the oh-so-recent past and lit her stumpy Gauloise. She snorted and beckoned...
Consumer groups, aghast at the size of the boost (it could have amounted to $1.5 billion), quickly filed court suits to upset this price schedule. The FPC then revised prices downward, partly by cutting the $1.01 figure to 93? and partly by reclassifying as "old" some gas first considered "new." So now the producers have gone to court in the hope of getting gas prices deregulated completely...