Word: aghast
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...fans were aghast at McEnroe's behavior; they cheered the lifeguard when he ordered the American to return to the court. The next day papers stuck on him, not for the first time, the worst of tennis epithets: "Brat." Even Mr. Connors, who probably tortures insects in his spare time, informed Mr. McEnroe that he was upset. "Shut your mouth and play," he advised. It seems tennis players, like everyone else from Westchester, are supposed to be well-behaved. Confronted with raw broccoli hors d'oeuvres, it is regarded as impolite to make faces...
...Tabankin is here to find out how well the VISTA program is working. McGraw is here to learn. As reporters look on, she speaks with the organizer of the home for a few minutes, and the first time she raises her voice above a whisper it is to ask, aghast, "Do these men really stay in these women's lives?" She is horrified...
...compelling, almost occult narration of Ted Tice's inspection of the Wasteland of Hiroshima exemplifies this style. The scientist's fate "became equivocal and ceased to make quite clear if he would win or fail" as he toured the atomic ruins, she writes, while his "imagination stalked ahead, aghast, among sight soon to be outdone." Shedding light on the bizarre truth of our inner, irrational metaphors, she presents this vision of a city unnaturally demolished to expose the contours of the earth, leaving only "a single monument, defabricated girders of an abolished dome, presiding like a vacant cranium...
...social fallout hangs heavy in the mountain air. A rock group came to play at the high school a few years back and was threatened with nonpayment if its members dared live up to their reputation for dropping acid. Yet even the performers were aghast at the drugs being passed around by the local students. The usual tales of suburban wife swapping, alcoholism, mental illness, divorce and suicide seem intensified by isolation. Laura Fermi, widow of Physicist Enrico Fermi, once described the genesis of the town's problems: "We were too many of a kind, too close...
...international community, the reaction is likely to be more diffuse, but not less damaging to the Administration. Staunch allies, such as the NATO countries and Japan, ought to be aghast at an incident that so vividly demonstrates the limits of their senior partner's power. Friendly states in the Middle East, like Israel, Egypt and Saudi Arabia, will probably be more ambivalent: on the one hand, they may hope that the outrage will provoke the U.S. into playing a more assertive role in their region; on the other, they are sure to worry about how credible the U.S. performance...