Word: disbelief
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...numbed by what I saw, not because of surprise but due to disbelief. This had happened to me!--a former member of the Race Relations Advisory Committee of Harvard College, the former chairman of the Educational and Political Action Committee of the Harvard-Radcliffe Black Students Association, the person who had worked to improve race relations on my campus and who had addressed incidents of racial harassment of others to the administration. Then I looked at this within the "Big Picture." That picture contained the recently dedicated memorial to slain civil rights activists in Montgomery, Ala.; and, closer to home...
After Vukonich's performance in Harvard's last two outings, it's easy to understand Ciavaglia's disbelief...
Paul Ferguson, a political science major at Minnesota and an avid Golden Gopher fan, describes the emotion he felt as the puck trickled past the Minnesota goaltender as "utter disbelief...
...vaudevillian and it is frequently uneven. A bonus in all of this is the truly great moments that come with creative tinkering. The opening is funny, ingenious and anachronistic; a prologue entreating the 20th century audience to be indulgent and, one would suppose, to engage in willing suspension of disbelief...
Tolmie survived two match points in the tiebreaker, making incredible shots under pressure to knot the score at six-all. He was actually helped by a questionable line call by Benefield. The crowd responded in audible disbelief leading Benefield to reverse his call. The incident seemed to shake his concentration, allowing Tolmie to capitalize and take the tiebreaker...