Word: speechless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Shook, the Sky Burned. Dazed men still in nightclothes stumbled out of dwellings along with women holding babies. The air was powdery. Many streets had gaping fissures. Few residents could get any idea of the extent of what had happened. People milled about, as an observer put it, "like speechless idiots." Beyond view, the injured and trapped began to cry out, and gradually the able-bodied undertook rescues...
...Stage Deli in Manhattan because there was no sandwich named after him (there is now) -- are often stunned when the indulgence ends. When a reporter at the press conference asked Rose why he was accepting the most severe punishment possible if he had not bet on baseball, Rose was speechless. He turned to his lawyer, Reuven Katz, shiny with sweat beside him, who could only natter on about the fine print of clause F. Katz had fought for several days for language that would allow Rose to stand before the microphones and speak about his banishment as if it were...
...also powerful, thought-provoking and frightening. It is the kind of film that leaves you speechless walking out of the theater...
...last week, a mob of angry dissenters upped the council's ante. And the council left them literally speechless...
Harvard should test not only for reading and writing proficiency in a foreign language, but also for speaking ability. Neither the College nor the students benefit from the policy of granting diplomas to students who are left speechless in conversation in a foreign country...