Word: speechlessly
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...discussing an aide's tribulations with Eisenhower's aide, Commander Harry C. ("Butch") Butcher, and wound up with an artless: "But of course I like it. ... After all, it's really women's work, isn't it?" For once, smooth-tongued Butch was speechless. Someone told Tooey about it, and he spread the story with fiendish glee...
...Africa. People are fever-stricken, enervated and blinded by headaches. And after the first unexpected actions that start them on the way to tragedy, Miss Smith's characters move less like Struggling human beings than like prisoners on whom literary sentence has been passed, torpid, dazed, well-nigh speechless, and locked in the confines of her narrow plot like Georgia chain-gang prisoners...
...Hamilton Basso has written of the South. The region of his novelist's imagination is a sullen and moldering domain, full of crime, where malicious clubwomen exchange poisoned compliments in honeyed Southern accents and where somber husbands carry in their pockets rattlesnake rattles which they buzz as their speechless comment on the life of their times. In Courthouse Square, revolving around a lynching, ana in Sun in Capricorn, about the rise of a worse Huey Long, Author Basso drew as bitter a picture of his native section as Sinclair Lewis drew in Main Street and Babbitt...
Stagg was speechless at the figure...
...build the bridges between theory and reality that too often have been missing in the burgeoning Air Forces' training system. Said one of the new group commanders last week: "When I got back and told my mother what we are up against in this war she was speechless. She had been reading the papers and she really thought we had been knocking hell out of a bunch of pushovers...