Word: aghast
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...least part of the reason for his precipitate action was disenchantment with Lyndon Johnson's Viet Nam policies. Not so. As the President said, Ball's resignation "has nothing to do with public policy but does have something to do with domestic politics." Ball is plainly aghast at how badly Humphrey is faring in the presidential race, and if there is anything that can make him live up to his middle name, it is the prospect of Richard Nixon in the White House...
...Aghast, his father wangled a job transfer to Michigan and told Burt that his next school would be an Eastern board ing school. Burt laughed in his father's face and disappeared for three weeks. When he returned, it was to announce his enlistment in the Marines. The fam ily now lives in Michigan. Burt is a pfc. in Viet...
...party leadership seemed genuinely aghast at the violence. Shanghai's daily Wen Hui Pao recently conceded that some of the ruling provincial and municipal revolutionary committees are "not in a state" to function effectively. Reason: "The split between the right and the left." Radio Canton complained that "the class enemy" was sabotaging efforts to control floods caused by the rising Pearl. Mao himself, however, seems to be egging on the feuds, after giving orders only last March for "unified rule." His latest thoughts from Peking carry shrill epithets about the danger of "rightist deviation" and the necessity of "leftist...
...delighted by your praise of the movie version of my book Rosemary's Baby [June 21] and aghast at your reference to its apartment-house setting as the "Branford," rather than the "Bramford." I chose the name in memory of Writer Bram Stoker, and 1 shudder to think that you may have offended his baby, who is still alive-you know he is-and whose name is Dracula...
...frustration of many Arabs with American politicians who have sold the Arab people of Palestine to the Zionist Jewish voters." That suggested a motive, but District Attorney Evelle Younger and State Attorney General Thomas Lynch wanted to avoid any such discussion until the trial. Thus they were aghast, and said so, when Mayor Yorty went before a news conference to divulge what he described as the contents of Sirhan's private notebooks, found in the Sirhan home...