Word: astounded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...giant step into space: Project Apollo, which aims at putting three Americans on the moon. He considers the U.S. space effort the tortoise to Russia's hare-but feels that the tortoise will soon pass the hare. Says he: "When we do pass him, I think we will astound even ourselves at what we can accomplish...
Preparing for her new role, Jackie has been reading every available book on the White House, is "riveted" by the multitudes of facts that are giving her a connoisseur's knowledge of the place. The shortcomings of the household budget astound her ("It's stone broke, this White House"). She hotly denies the story that she will hang modern paintings everywhere: "The White House is an 18th and 19th century house, and should be kept as a period house. Whatever one does, one does gradually, to make a house a more lived-in house, with beautiful things...