Word: disbelief
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...during elementary school: "He was a beautiful-looking little boy, a wonderful athlete, really a leader. He was the best basketball player on the team." No wonder the fa ther of such a child, told years later that his son was being held as an assassin, would scowl in disbelief...
...guard hunched over the sculptures, his hands on his knees, neck twisted to look at me. His eyes were full of amazement and disbelief. Even the gallery guards in Munich are consumed by the city's art. Munich produces little that is really new, but its citizens revel in what they have and overwhelm visitors with their enthusiasm...
...guard hunched over the sculptures, his hands on his knees, neck twisted to look at me. His eyes were full of amazement and disbelief. Even the gallery guards in Munich are consumed by the city's art. Munich produces little that is really new, but its citizens revel in what they have and overwhelm visitors with their enthusiasm...
When the correspondent and his colleagues recorded inhuman sights -mounds of hair and gold teeth, rooms of crutches, emaciated corpses stacked like cordwood, ovens used for children-the world stared in disbelief. Today it seems difficult to understand the incredulity. For if more than 6 million Jews, gypsies and other "undesirables" perished in the camps, how was it possible to keep the Final Solution a secret from their neighbors, from soldiers and intelligence agents and the foreign press? In part, says Laqueur, with a screen of euphemisms and evasions. Even in Germany, Jews were not executed, they were officially "resettled...
Brian Buckley, Crimson quarterback, deserved a Purple Heart for his gutsy performance against a characteristically disciplined and hard-hitting Army defense. The partisans, who assuredly frown on defeat, watched in growing disbelief. Harvard? The Preppies...