Word: astonishment
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...last in their divisions, and only Turner was trying to escape on the back of an ostrich. Since that ignominious year, the Braves have risen to first in the National League's Western Division, and Turner no longer threatens to manage. But in a way that tends to astonish all of the people some of the time, and infuriate some of the people all of the time, he continues to be an utterly original American sportsman. His sacrilege as a team owner is to regard professional sports as if they were games. He has said, in fact, that life...
...take care of this monarch as well, especially since her protectors last week seemed astonish ingly inept at doing so. In an incident that London's Daily Express scathingly called "the most gross and scandalous lapse of security in her 30-year reign," Queen Elizabeth II was abruptly awakened by an intruder early one morning and forced to spend an eerie ten minutes conversing with him. The visitor had evaded guardsmen, bobbies, servants, surveillance cameras and electronic devices to reach the royal bedroom, one flight up from the palace grounds...
Since those days, the phenomenal popularity of dance has made sophisticates of the most provincial audiences. Yet even in New York City, epicenter of the modern movement, the 27-year-old Taylor company has retained its power to astonish. At the City Center the dancers are currently providing evening after evening of crackling wit and virtuosity under the hand of a master...
...migration has surprised demographers, but it can hardly astonish anyone familiar with U.S. attitudes toward urban existence. Americans have always preferred smaller communities, and did so even during the years when the nation seemed bent on emptying its entire population into metropolitan clots. Surveys have consistently shown that a majority of the people, including almost 4 out of 10 big city dwellers, were partial to a life outside the metropolis. Some leaned to the suburbs and others to more rural vistas. But the biggest single dream remained the small town. Now, when more and more are moving to fulfill that...
...officials should be expected to stick to the truth. Her point: the public is now so cynical about being lied to that only extraordinary efforts to avoid lying will restore a feeling of trust. Or, as Mark Twain once observed, "Always do right. This will gratify some people, and astonish the rest...