Word: aghast
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...genial beer guzzler, hit the town of Greensboro, N.C. and made some ungenial, damyankee noises. Caught either off guard (according to a local reporter) or off record (according to Douglas), the actor waded Queegishly into a question about how he liked Dixie, snapped a curt "It stinks." After the aghast newsman commented that the reply would make interesting reading, Douglas plowed onward: "A land of sowbelly and segregation-it stinks." By the time the show had rolled on to Atlanta, Actor Douglas was trying to get his foot out of his mouth, succeeded only in jamming it in farther...
...Germany as a financial expert. To get war-torn Germany off its cigarette economy, Dodge proposed a 90% currency reduction (one mark for ten), coupled with capital levies on real property to even out the burden of defeat. "Imagine a Detroit banker advocating a capital levy," gulped an aghast colleague...
...Unrealistic & Unwise." "He should go before he further embarrasses his chosen successor, Sir Anthony Eden," snapped the pro-Labor Daily Mirror. Even the Times, which used to be hard to shock, was aghast. "What on earth made him say it? The idea was unrealistic at the time; it is unwise to come out with it now." Moscow happily noted that the statement "unmasks the true aims of the policy of reviving the German Wehrmacht...
...another security agent (James Arness) and a beautiful female scientist (Joan Weldon) to hunt the horrors out. The hunters pump the anthill full of cyanide gas, and then go stalking through a giant welter of tunnels in search of survivors. Two queen ants, they discover, have flown the nest. Aghast, the entomologist rushes to Washington to tell an emergency meeting of VIPs that if the queens succeed in breeding a new generation, "man will probably be extinct within nine months...
...Your "Ides of March" cover portraying the well-known musical theme of Dragnet must have left . . . millions of Dragnet fans aghast...