Word: flabbergasting
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...quite possibly had the game of his career. The junior posted a surreal stat line, shooting 11-of-16 from the floor, dishing out eight assists against two turnovers, and adding six steals to flabbergast the Eagle ballhanders...
...quite possibly had the game of his career. The junior posted an unreal stat line, shooting 11-of-16 from the floor, dishing out eight assists against two turnovers, and adding six steals to flabbergast the Eagle ballhanders. Defensively, he went head-to-head with an All-American guard, Rice, who had just torched UNC for 25 points in the previous game. Rice, BC’s leading scorer entering the contest, had just three points until there was 4:02 remaining in the game. He finished with 14 points...
...view that the environmentalists tend to exaggerate the dangers is basically supported by George MacGinitie, the longtime (1932-57) director of Cal Tech's marine laboratories, who lives on the sound. But her statements flabbergast a number of her former colleagues at the University of Washington. A group of 79 scientists and graduate students have declared that a spill "would have serious consequences in Puget Sound." Robert Harman, professor of geology and geography, charges: "Her statements are either misguided, misinformed, naive or whatever. The bays and estuaries of Puget Sound have a tendency to keep oil trapped permanently. Every marine...
State is still no giant among bureaucracies-it is the second smallest department in personnel (after Labor) and budget (after Justice)-but it is now quite large enough to flabbergast Thomas Jefferson. From the seventh floor of a granite building of fluorescent-glaring corridors and scarred desks, Dean Rusk rules over 24,200 employees (down a bit from 1950) and a budget of $383,948,000. State has 110 embassies, two legations (Hungary and Bulgaria), 68 consulates general and 84 consulates. Reporting to Rusk are two Under Secretaries, George Ball and Tom Mann, two deputy Under Secretaries, and no less...
...wake of an expanded draft call, thousands of Americans are about to encounter a fact of G.I. life that might flabbergast a veteran of World War II. It is the Uniform Code of Military Justice, which permits U.S. military courts to be reviewed by civilian judges. By virtue of the code, the modern U.S. court-martial gives the accused a fairer shake than he can expect in most U.S. state criminal courts...