Word: aghast
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...Cairo airport by Egypt's Minister of Irrigation. At the summit meeting he was ostracized by other representatives. He was even losing the loyalty of his own family. His daughter Mona loudly backed the fedayeen and badgered her father by letter to leave the government. When Daoud, aghast at the extent of the carnage in Jordan, finally did resign, the guerrillas announced that they would hold him, among others, responsible for the fighting. A bitter, forlorn figure, the general decided to go into exile in Libya...
...American visitor, aghast at such wiggling disrespect, remonstrated to a retired Royal Navy commander. This very model of Britain's Establishment explained: "Our flag's not the Holy Grail; it's only a bit of cloth. In the services, when we've done with it, we put it to polishing boots or brass...
Despite the Pentagon's painstaking precautions, Oregon Governor Tom McCall was aghast. Unlike the Okinawans, he recognized that transporting the nerve gas is far more dangerous than storing it. Citizen protest in Washington and Oregon was quick and vehement: a petition to stop the shipment collected 200,000 signatures; various groups staged "die-ins" to simulate the effects of the gas. As a last-ditch effort, McCall and Governor Daniel J. Evans of Washington sued to block the shipment in U.S. district court. Late last month, President Nixon canceled the plan...
...scene is slightly exotic-the imaginary South American republic of Camaguay-but the war is of a kind that is becoming all too familiar. American forces are aiding a local dictator in trying to wipe out a terrorizing Communist guerrilla army. What the book amounts to is an intimate, aghast report by an invisible correspondent attached to a mixed patrol of Americans and somewhat loyalist Camaguayans delivering supplies to an isolated camp...
...readers of the Ladies' Home Journal could take a lesson in thrift from the magazine's part-time correspondent Lynda Johnson Robb. Seven months pregnant, L.BJ.'s older daughter rode a Trailways bus from Washington to New York to turn in an article on young marrieds. Aghast, the editors rented a limousine to drive her back to D.C. But when Lynda learned that the car would cost the magazine $150, she politely declined and returned home...