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Luann
by Greg Evans
Gocomics
March 30, 2014
be taken
aback
jaw-dropping USA
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/08/
health/coronavirus-risk-factors.html
http://www.npr.org/2016/02/16/
466618817/sue-klebold-mother-of-columbine-shooter-carries-him-
everywhere-i-go-always
dumbfounded USA
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/11/
fashion/steve-jobs-apple-was-a-low-tech-parent.html
dumbstruck UK
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/sport/2007/12/09/
hatton_pays_the_price_for_gamb.html
dumbstruck USA
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/12/
science/jennifer-doudna-crispr-cas9-genetic-engineering.html
speechless USA
http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2016/03/15/
470422089/can-computer-programs-be-racist-and-sexist
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2009/06/
michael-jacksons-death-family-says-they-are-speechless-and-devastated.html
look nonplussed
USA
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/13/
opinion/13dowd.html
bemused UK
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2010/may/31/
missionary-christianity
bemusement
puzzled
disbelief USA
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/05/
opinion/blow-the-era-of-disbelief.html
shake his / her / their head in
disbelief USA
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/19/nyregion/at-wake-for-staten-island-
stabbing-victims-tears-and-one-word-why.html
bewilderment USA
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/13/
opinion/protest-social-distancing-covid.html
puzzled
puzzlement UK
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/jan/02/
elizabeth-jane-howard-dies-90
baffled USA
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/28/
magazine/hereditary-angioedema-hae-diagnosis.html
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/10/05/
555864489/why-did-he-do-it-authorities-still-baffled-by-vegas-shooter
baffling USA
http://www.npr.org/2017/07/20/
538274460/911-transcript-of-woman-killed-by-minneapolis-police-made-public
befuddled USA
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/09/nyregion/
09apply.html
surprise
it may come as a surprise
USA
http://www.npr.org/2016/11/18/
502575561/chart-whos-who-in-the-future-trump-administration
surprised
flabbergasted UK
http://www.theguardian.com/football/2007/sep/27/
newsstory.manchesterunited
flabbergasted
USA
http://niemann.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/18/
over-the-wall/
amaze
amazing
amazement
USA
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/
story.php?storyId=18615556 - February 1,
2008
shock USA
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/09/
world/europe/global-reaction-us-presidential-election-donald-trump.html
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/
story.php?storyId=18615556 - February 1,
2008
shocking USA
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/09/
opinion/donald-trumps-shocking-success.html
awe
USA
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/
story.php?storyId=98469063 - December 24, 2008
staggering USA
https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/04/30/
848021681/a-staggering-toll-30-million-have-filed-for-unemployment
https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/04/02/
825383525/6-6-million-file-for-unemployment-another-dismal-record
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/03/19/
upshot/coronavirus-jobless-claims-states.html
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/
story.php?storyId=98469063 - December 24, 2008
staggering milestone
https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/11/15/
935229627/u-s-hits-11-million-coronavirus-cases-adding-1-million-in-a-week
astonishing USA
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/12/13/
505434080/scientists-report-the-arctic-is-melting-even-more-rapidly
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/04/
opinion/why-the-court-was-right-to-allow-cheek-swabs.html
be astonished
USA
https://www.npr.org/sections/congress-electoral-college-tally-live-updates/2021/01/06/
954138905/were-just-astonished-that-this-is-happening-sen-tammy-duckworth-says
astonishment USA
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/09/
opinion/absorbing-the-impossible.html
astounded
stun
UK / USA
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/04/
us/politics/trump-suleimani.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/28/
us/politics/trump-gun-control.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/05/us/illinois-
police-officers-shooting-was-suicide-officials-say.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/05/
education/oberlin-cancels-classes-after-series-of-hate-related-incidents.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/
mother-stunned-at-sons-murder-rampage-1990349.html -
3 June 2010
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/may/14/
girl-eight-rape-allegation-mother
http://www.usatoday.com/news/military/2009-11-05-Fort-Hood_N.htm
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-10-08-wisconsin_N.htm
stunned UK
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/15/
i-couldnt-save-my-friend-carnage-leaves-christchurch-stunned
http://www.theguardian.com/football/2007/sep/27/
newsstory.manchesterunited
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2007/sep/04/
climatechange
stunned USA
http://www.npr.org/2017/06/14/
532636128/before-the-rumble-in-the-jungle-music-rang-out-at-zaire-74
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/01/
sports/ncaabasketball/louisville-defeats-duke-but-kevin-ware-breaks-leg-in-first-half.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/17/us/
17convert.html
http://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/mensbasketball/atlantic10/2006-09-20-
duquesne-focus_x.htm
be absolutely stunned
UK
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jun/16/
labour-mp-jo-cox-shot-in-west-yorkshire

stunning USA
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/06/
us/politics/trump-riot-dc-capitol-photos.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/09/us/
politics/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-president.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/06/
health/second-success-raises-hope-for-a-way-to-rid-babies-of-hiv.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/01/sports/
ncaabasketball/louisville-defeats-duke-but-kevin-ware-breaks-leg-in-first-half.html
mesmerized
USA
http://www.npr.org/2017/06/14/
532636128/before-the-rumble-in-the-jungle-music-rang-out-at-zaire-74
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/20/
opinion/20bono.html
eye-popping
USA
http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2017/06/21/
533702513/spillover-beasts-which-animals-pose-the-biggest-viral-risk
mind-boggling
USA
https://www.npr.org/2020/03/30/
821360397/the-u-s-was-already-deep-in-debt-this-years-deficit-will-be-mind-boggling
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/02/11/
275254157/mind-boggling-historic-ice-storm-headed-for-deep-south
mind-bogglingly + ADJECTIVE
USA
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/08/19/
490628323/as-julys-record-heat-builds-through-august-arctic-ice-keeps-melting
mind-bending
USA
http://www.nytimes.com/video/us/100000004443035/atomic-vets.html
it
blows my mind that...
USA
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/07/09/
485388393/ambush-in-dallas-shakes-the-movement-for-police-reform
it really
blows my mind USA
http://www.npr.org/2017/08/06/
541676283/-rumble-celebrates-rock-n-roll-s-native-american-roots
From Stunned to Stunning
for Louisville
March 31, 2013
The New York Times
By ZACH SCHONBRUN
INDIANAPOLIS — After all the buildup, the history, with a
matchup of decorated coaches and programs, the most poignant moment of Sunday’s
Midwest Region final sprang from an injury perhaps unparalleled in its
gruesomeness at an N.C.A.A. tournament.
The scene after Louisville’s Kevin Ware sustained an open fracture of his right
leg late in the first half was surreal. Four Cardinals woozily held each other
up at center court, several appearing on the brink of fainting, others crying
and shaking. Coach Rick Pitino dabbed away tears. Players on the bench said a
prayer.
While being treated on the floor, before a cart carried him off to a hospital,
Ware called his teammates over, but they could not hear him. Pitino had to yell.
“Guys!” Pitino cried. “He wants to say something.”
Russ Smith, Peyton Siva, Chane Behanan, Wayne Blackshear and Gorgui Dieng
gathered around Ware, who said through tears, “Just win it for me, y’all.”
His words soothed the souls of 13 players who turned their sorrow into fuel.
Louisville, the region’s No. 1 seed, responded by dismantling the second-seeded
Blue Devils, 85-63, in a commanding second-half performance at Lucas Oil Stadium
to earn a second consecutive trip to the Final Four.
At halftime, Pitino told his team to win for Ware, who grew up in Atlanta, where
the Final Four will be held. At the time of Ware’s injury, the Cardinals led,
21-20, but it was going to take a monumental resurgence of character not to let
the scene they had witnessed derail their play.
They emerged from the locker room with eight minutes before the second half
began — unusually early. They were ready to run, run, run again.
“We couldn’t lose this game for him,” Pitino said. “We just couldn’t.”
Louisville unleashed a torrent of layups and steals, blocks and dunks, a
basketball bludgeoning. The Cardinals (33-5) shot 59.2 percent in the second
half to hand Duke Coach Mike Krzyzewski his second loss in 13 appearances in the
Round of 8.
“We know how hard it is to beat Duke,” Pitino said. “If you let Duke shoot and
you let Duke get in transition, you’re going to lose. We took those two things
away.”
Pitino does know how hard it is to beat Duke. As the Kentucky coach in 1992, his
team lost to the Blue Devils in overtime of the 1992 East Region final on
Christian Laettner’s buzzer-beating shot, perhaps the most famous play in
college basketball history.
The two coaches remained close friends — they even appeared in socks and
underwear together in a popular commercial in 2009 for the video game Guitar
Hero — but faced each other only one more time since then: in the Battle 4
Atlantis tournament in the Bahamas, on Nov. 24.
Duke (30-6) won that game, 76-71, handing Louisville its first loss, but the
Cardinals were without their center, Dieng, who had a broken left wrist and
whose absence left the team without an integral defensive presence inside. Dieng
sprinkled in a little offensive game Sunday, scoring 14 points with 11 rebounds
and 4 blocks.
Louisville’s pestering defense had a discernible effect on Duke’s Seth Curry,
who struggled finding open shots in the first half, after his 29-point outburst
carried the Blue Devils against Michigan State in the Round of 16.
“They just come at you the whole game,” Curry said. “They’re a great backcourt,
and it was a tough test today.”
Curry, guarded by Siva and Luke Hancock, stirred to life in the second half,
scoring Duke’s first 8 points. But the success was short-lived, and then again,
the Cardinals were motivated.
At halftime, the Louisville coaching staff did not know what to expect. The mood
was somber. Pitino’s message was short.
“Don’t lose this game for Kevin Ware,” Smith recalled.
Less than four minutes into the second half, Mason Plumlee dunked in a putback
to tie the score, 42-42. Then Smith hit a layup, and Siva hit a jumper, and
Behanan made a steal. Within minutes, Louisville was on a 17-2 run. The shift
was reminiscent of the Cardinals’ second-half dismantling of Syracuse in the
title game of the Big East tournament.
The rout was on.
“I thought we had a chance there, and then boom,” Krzyzewski said. “That’s what
they do to teams.”
Siva scored 10 of his 16 points after halftime, and Smith finished with a
game-high 23 to earn the region’s most outstanding player award. Remarkably, the
Cardinals were only 2 of 13 from the 3-point line. They scored 42 of their
points in the lane.
Pitino thanked his son, Richard, the Florida International coach, for suggesting
to him at practice Saturday a different way to incorporate the pick-and-roll,
knowing how good Plumlee and Ryan Kelly are at defending it.
“It worked to perfection,” Pitino said.
After the game, as ladders were assembled underneath the hoops, the Louisville
players ran off the court. They told one another before the Big East tournament
that they would not cut down nets until after the national championship game.
“We just want the big one,” Behanan said.
At some point before the final buzzer, Ware’s No. 5 jersey made its way back to
the Louisville bench. Behanan, Ware’s closest friend on the team, held it aloft
and then pulled it on. The crowd chanted Kevin’s name. The tears welled up
again.
From Stunned to Stunning for Louisville,
NYT,
31.3.2013,
https://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/01/
sports/ncaabasketball/louisville-defeats-duke-
but-kevin-ware-breaks-leg-in-first-half.html
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