what does "didn't register" mean? "Oh, my Lord, they have shot President Kennedy," someone moaned. It didn't register. Price simply couldn't absorb what had happened. Then he glimpsed the girl hurrying behind. He recognized her from her pictures, and as her crouched figure darted through the doors that led to Major Medicine he whirled for a second look. But something was wrong. In the photographs he had seen she had always been faultlessly dressed. Now she was blotched and disheveled. And he couldn't imagine how her stockings had become coated with thick red paint.