Word: aghast
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...worked in years-building a ship, a tank, a plane. And perhaps the money that went down the drain on Saturday night was less likely to breed inflation than the money that went into the bank. Somewhere in thoughts of those who reveled and of those who stood aghast was probably the same thought: the real pain of war-the pain of shortages, the pain of privation, the pain of wounds and death-would all too soon be felt...
...Aghast at how quickly the civil-servant mentality can figure out committees to waste time, the new minister overhauled his top personnel in what became known as Bracken's Blitzkrieg. Since then he has built up a photographic department, given the hotfoot to BBC, made friends with U.S. correspondents, gained new respect for the M.O.I, from British newspapers...
Perhaps the most striking of these was the proposal that the government select the intellectual cream of the high school graduates and give them a college education at government expense, pointing toward specialized war work. Peace-time pundits would be aghast at the mere thought, raising the cry of government control of education with all its totalitarian implications. There are dangers in subsidization from Washington, but even in normal days they could be successfully controlled. At any rate, the plan seems eminently feasible as a crisis measure; in the sort of war we are now waging it might well...
...listened aghast, then turned...
Canadian police sent word to the Free Press to recall the papers, but virtually the entire edition had been gobbled up by wild-eyed Windsor citizens. In outlying communities, police and vigilantes chased newsboys off the streets. A copy went to Ottawa, where Dominion censors stared at it aghast, took up their pens to add the Free Press to the list of banned U. S. periodicals...