Word: aghast
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When the U.S. General Accounting Office dispatched its investigators onto Forest Service land, the assignment seemed typically dull: a survey of mining claims. But last week the investigators returned to Washington pop-eyed and aghast at all the things in the forest that cannot be seen for all the trees...
...Aghast, Gullion tugged at Tshombe's sleeve, implored him to keep talking; the alternative, he pointed out. might well be Tshombe's own destruction, for the U.N. force that now controlled Elisabethville, Tshombe's Katanga stronghold, would never hand back the city unless agreement was reached. Ralph Bunche buttonholed both sides; two other key U.N. officials-Ghana's Robert Gardiner and Tunisia's Mahmoud Khiari-feverishly suggested possible new formulas for compromise...
...fundamental attributes," said one Mirror man demurely, "are always covered by a towel." Occasionally the towel is about the size of an un-Sanforized dishcloth. Britons brightened at Jane's return, but the august Guardian, fully aware that Jane had wed Georgie a scant 22 months ago, was aghast at the sudden appearance of a teen-aged daughter. "Can it be parthenogenesis?" asked the Guardian in its "London Letter" column. "There is a slight accent of scandal about the whole thing...
...orchestra." (The committee had made such impossible demands in an RCA Victor recording contract in 1959 that RCA was forced to drop its Record-of-the-Month recordings with the Met, causing -the musicians to lose $1,000 a year apiece.) The union itself, said orchestra members, stood "aghast" at the committee's proposals. But most of the musicians seemed convinced that management would capitulate rather than cancel the season and jeopardize its eagerly awaited 1964 move to a new opera house in Lincoln Center...
...suggest that Tractors for Freedom be diverted to deserving South American countries-for who can deny the economic value of such a movement-and substituting a "Troops Instead of Tractors" committee for Dr. Castro. No doubt some critics would be aghast, but wouldn't it be wonderful to see our national pride glow again...