Word: astound
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Dates: during 1961-1961
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Preparing for her new role, Jackie has been reading every available book on the White House, is "riveted" by the multitudes of facts that are giving her a connoisseur's knowledge of the place. The shortcomings of the household budget astound her ("It's stone broke, this White House"). She hotly denies the story that she will hang modern paintings everywhere: "The White House is an 18th and 19th century house, and should be kept as a period house. Whatever one does, one does gradually, to make a house a more lived-in house, with beautiful things...