Word: aghast
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...Such an attack almost happened in 1997 when a Palestinian immigrant named Ghazi Ibrahim Abu Maizar came within hours of detonating a pipe bomb, and himself, in a Brooklyn, N.Y., subway station used by many Orthodox Jews. His roommate, an Egyptian, discovered what he was up to and, aghast, tipped off local police, who foiled the plot with just hours to spare. Police found two fully rigged pipe bombs packed with nails and bullets in his apartment. Though the would-be suicide bomber wasn't working for any Palestinian group, his case suggests that Middle East violence could provoke independent...
...Cheney will have learned that even those Arab regimes most closely allied with Washington are sharply at odds with the U.S. agenda for the region, and cannot be counted on to go along with it. It is no overstatement to say that Arab leaders have been aghast over the Bush talking about toppling Saddam at the same time as appearing to give support to Sharon - a posture that U.S.-aligned Arab states fear will set their own streets ablaze...
Kaitlin, a sophomore in Pforzheimer House who was referred to pejoratively in the diary, also found out about the online journal. “I was just aghast,” she says. “Apart from the insults, it was just strange, because I’d see [Jane] in the dining hall and ask her about her [spring] break, but I already knew. I was addicted to her diary. I would come home, and this would be a daily ritual of her saying things about...
...seemed over. But special police in camouflage gear stormed the funeral procession, beat pall-bearers and stole the Ayatollah's corpse, which fell from its coffin twice during the scuffle. "If it's true, it will be among the blackest moments in the Islamic Republic's history," whispered one aghast cleric in Tehran. Black-clad mourners filled Qom's Chaharmardan Street as they proceeded toward Shirazi's home. In his will, the cleric asked to be buried temporarily in Qom until it was possible to be removed permanently to the holy Iraqi city of Karbala, where he spent his early...
Heroic parishioners such as Shamoon Masih, who carried children out of the church before fainting from blood loss, were aghast at the pure viciousness of the act. “They had no mercy for the children,” he lamented. “They had no mercy for the women. They could see that small children were being hit by bullets, but they kept firing.” Pope John Paul II characterized the brutality as a “tragic act of intolerance” that was utterly “evil” in its nature...