Word: flabbergasted
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...Prime Minister delivering one of his televised globe-side chats: his Macmillan is a semi-paralyzed, desperately senile ass who bleats bromides in a faltering Edwardian drawl. Moore is a most accomplished musician, and he has composed several most accomplished parodies of lieder by Schubert (this one called "Eine Flabbergast"), songs by Faure and Benjamin Britten and a piano sonata by Beethoven...
...success, femininity must go hand in hand with practicality and adaptability. "Much more than a run of successful men, the successful women executives show a flair for moving with the situation ... If a business woman meets violent disagreement from a man she knows only slightly, she cannot shame or flabbergast her opponent without being labeled a battle-ax . . . She is always a salesman on the side . . . Successful women know who they are: they don't confuse themselves with Joan of Arc or Sarah Bernhardt or Florence Nightingale and, unlike some male executives, they don't confuse themselves with...
...First Lady at the train, arranged a luncheon, took her to see the Cannon textile mills 18 miles away, had Towel-Maker Charles Cannon explain how he treats 16,000 workers. Impressed, Mrs. Roosevelt nodded "My Day" approval in a way that would wound many a union man and flabbergast Columnist Westbrook Pegler: "In view of all this, which seems to meet high union standards, I was surprised to find that the mill was not unionized, but Mr. Cannon said they had always had good labor relations ever since his father had started the mill in '88." Charles Cannon...
...rebuke" and "abuse." Among merged words now in common use are flabbergast (flabby & aghast) and chortle (chuckle & snort...
...last week in Philadelphia's Franklin Institute, where engineers of Bell Telephone Laboratories and a trained operator demonstrated a complicated electronic device called Voder (short for "voice operation demonstrator"). Voder creates a variety of sounds resembling human speech closely enough to be easily intelligible. It is intended to flabbergast, enlighten and amuse visitors to this year's world's fairs in San Francisco and New York City...