Word: off-guard
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...strides out to where she has spied a group of female nomads under a tent of sticks and black plastic. The women have only the faintest idea of who she is. Sonia cannot understand their dialect. And the photographers, trailing far behind, cannot hope to capture this briefest of off-guard moments. But away from the crowds and the press and the party meetings, as Sonia Gandhi stands alone in a field, hugging the poorest of India's poor, it is difficult to tell whose grin is wider...
...They also moved the fastball in and out very well,” Mann said, “and caught a lot of the Columbia hitters off-guard with some inside heat...
...express our diverse cultures because America’s founders, too, were immigrants, and understood the terms of oppression that caused them to flee their own native countries. But recent literature by Samuel P. Huntington, Harvard’s Weatherhead University Professor, has caught much of the Harvard community off-guard by disregarding this fundamental truth. Huntington’s critique of Latin American (particularly Mexican) immigration to the United States comes after a long history of anti-immigrant rhetoric on his part. However, his recent writings are most disturbing due to their lack of substantial evidence and thinly-veiled...
While years in wrestling and politics accustomed Ventura to applause and fanfare, the audience’s very enthusiastic reception caught him off-guard...
...don’t think it was too hard of a shot,” Smith said, “but I think it caught him off-guard, going against the grain there...