Word: aghast
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...Justice Hugo Black was aghast at the decision. In a dissent that ran longer than the majority opinion, Black saw Congress usurping the jury system that he reveres. Congress can "create crimes," said Black, but the Constitution empowers judges or juries to decide the facts "on their own judgment without legislative restraint." As for personal experience, drawled Black from the bench, "I come from a part of the country where now and then they had some stills, but I never thought that if I was unlucky enough to be caught around there, hunting birds or something, my presence would...
Balancing Interests. Doctrinaire conservatives were aghast at the appointment. Later on, Frankfurter infuriated dogmatic liberals, who had thought he was their captive. The man who had attacked the business-minded Supreme Court in the '20s now upheld the right of states to enjoin even peaceful picketing. The man who had denounced "Red raids" after World War I now sustained constitutionally debatable sanctions against Communists. Leading a 5-to-4 majority, Frankfurter was often the key supporter of cold-war security measures that appalled his judicial foe (but personal friend) Justice Hugo Black...
...night and all night long, while the wind lies still and the air is cool, the woman shovels sand into buckets and sends the buckets up the rope. If no sand comes out of the pit, she explains, no food will be sent back in return. The man is aghast. "Don't you feel that all this is meaningless?" he asks. "Moving sand to live, living to move sand...
...wanted Senate wives to disclose their earnings. That proposal was defeated 62 to 25. The same fate befell an amendment offered by Delaware Republican John J. Williams, the man who kicked off the Baker investigation last October. Williams wanted Senators' income tax returns included in the disclosure plan. Aghast, his colleagues knocked that idea down...
...hours the brothers lay still. Then, just before 7 p.m., West Berliners strolling on the other side of the field stopped in their tracks, aghast, as they saw the two young men rise to make their break. Wearing heavy gloves to protect their hands, the brothers vaulted one row of wire, then another, finally the third. Luckily, the guards' backs were turned. Only one shot was fired-and that by a young West Berlin woman who excitedly snapped her camera (see cut) just as the two successfully hurdled the final barrier to freedom in the West...