Word: speechlessly
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...book lurches into motion when a thin, anguished white woman staggers from Armstrong Houses, a black housing project in Dempsy, N.J., her palms red with lacerations and glittering with fragments of glass. The victim, Brenda Martin, is stunned and nearly speechless, but Lorenzo Council, a sympathetic black detective whose position in Armstrong seems to be part mayor, part padre, gets her to tell her story. She was carjacked by a black man, she says. Would she like to talk with a woman detective, Council asks, meaning, was she raped? No, something worse: her four-year-old son Cody was asleep...
...then, all one need do in evaluating capitalism is admonish against greed and abusive economic-political arrangements, the exorcism is quickly over, and Gerasimov is left as speechless as Gorbachev quickly became after losing his handle on the nuclear football...
...their shoes in tatters, their clothing threadbare and dirty. They sat on roughly cut squares of dark-brown carpeting inside a cavernous marble-paved hall decorated with giant crystal chandeliers and precious works of art. Unaccustomed to such trappings of wealth, many of the visitors were wide-eyed and speechless...
When the right-wing Christian men's group called the Promise Keepers held a two-day event at her university, Syracuse University Assistant professor of English Rosaria M. Champagne said she felt uncharacteristically speechless...
Michelle Crider, 28, was speechless. The pharmacist had just said, "No." The married mother of a two-year-old daughter, Crider was concerned that she might become pregnant after having intercourse with her husband. She called her doctor, who prescribed a so-called morning-after formula: four birth-control pills to prevent implantation of a fertilized egg, a use consistent with recent regulations from the Food and Drug Administration. Then the doctor called Crider back: the pharmacy manager at Longs Drug Store in Temecula, California, had refused to fill the order, citing his moral beliefs...