Word: speechlessly
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Delta Airlines has long had a deserved reputation for maintaining unusually good relations with its employees. Now the line's largely nonunionized staff of 37,000 is showing its gratitude with a help-the-company gesture so generous that even Delta's corporate management has been left speechless...
...afterward, his trophy in hand. "I am psyched." JJ. Gertler, a formidable Amherst also-ran, is chatting "Don't you want to be in politics, J.J.?" friend asks. "Oh, my gracious, I hope not," he says. "We hope not too," chimes a passing victor, and Gertler, only momentarily speechless, manages a game smile...
...prominent Washington black leader: "Of all the blacks they might have selected, they picked out a right-wing religious nut. It shows this Administration's complete contempt for civil rights and for the commission." Said Eleanor Smeal, president of the National Organization for Women: "I feel almost speechless. He is hostile to all the groups the commission is supposed to serve...
...Manhattan, Abbott was found guilty of manslaughter. Because he admitted that he had killed Adan, the verdict was considered a victory for the defense. Said Defense Lawyer Ivan Fisher: "When they said not guilty on murder two, I was enormously relieved. I was flying." His client, Fisher said, "was speechless, almost dazed...
...assisting. Stanford was responsible for hooking her up to a heart-lung machine; somehow the connection was made backward. For 15 minutes no one noticed, and instead of pumping oxygenated blood into Green, the machine drained blood out of her aorta. The resulting brain damage has left her a speechless quadriplegic living on liquid protein. (And she could live that way for 20 years because her heart surgery was successful.) The Greens sued for malpractice, and the chief surgeon on the case settled for $575,000. But the Government, which represented Colonel Stanford, fought the suit tenaciously. That...