Word: thunderstruck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...needed within the Government to constrain careless or inexperienced power. "Arthur is a great politician," adds Conable. "He is a master of the pregnant pause. He knows when to clean his pipe. He can answer the most complicated questions with 'I doubt it,' and the world is thunderstruck with his wisdom. When he comes to testify before any committee, the whole committee shows up. He has the same effect on the members that Henry Kissinger had. He seems to be right...
Sandi Slone, a faculty member of the Museum of Fine Arts, is exhibiting some recent acrylic paintings. Sporting such varied titles as "Thunderstruck," "Rondo," and "Stalking the Giants," the works all follow the same theme and differ basically only in color...
...Orson to those of us who own his work, who have been thunderstruck by his audacity and oh, how to write love letters...
...Supreme Court rendered a surprising and unexplained decision in a different sphere of law last week: sodomy. By a vote of 6 to 3 the high court summarily ruled that a Virginia sodomy statute was constitutional. That action, unaccompanied by any written opinion, left civil libertarians and homosexual activists thunderstruck...
However, in a New York Times oped column published Monday, William Safire wrote that Kissinger must have known exactly what information Sheehan received. And Warren D. Manshel, editor of Foreign Policy, said this week Kissinger's statement Sunday that the article left him "thunderstruck" was "really a lovely expression." And in a statement yesterday, Sheehan said he used "many sources" for the article. He said he regrets "it has been necessary to identify two of them...