Word: shock
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...coal miners on the midnight-to-8-a.m. "cateye" shift were working the rich bituminous veins of the Consolidation Coal Co.'s No. 9 mine in northern West Virginia. Suddenly, deep in the earth, an explosion thundered through the eight-mile-long labyrinth of shafts and tunnels. Shock waves rippled outward for miles, jolting the Marion County mining community into frightened wakefulness. At daybreak, thick clouds of greasy black smoke billowed 150 ft. into the grey morning...
Even the police seemed tamer and less visible. Though hedged with restrictions, demonstrations could be held without being put to rout by police dogs, shock troops and water cannon, which used to be the rule. Controversy found its voice, as in the case of Father José da Felicidade, a parish priest who demands the "deStalinization" of the Roman Catholic Church in Portugal...
...time. Here I was a professional acrobat, used to run five-six miles in the morning, keep in condition you know. Asthma, me? Yeah. Nerves, he said. Take it easy and relax. I just walked around in a fog for a year and a half after it, the shock of it, you know, it will affect people that...
...Komsomol boasts a proud heritage. In 1918, when Russia's civil war was at its height, the fledgling youth movement gave the Bolshevik cause some of its most dedicated fighters. Their role earned them Lenin's encomium as the "shock forces" of the revolution. There were 22,000 members then, people drawn from schools, factories and farms. They considered themselves "an active, creative force in society, the party's helper and its reserve, a school of Communism for youth...
Today's Quincy-Leverett touch football contest and Thursday's Eliot-Leverett soccer game highlight this week's activity. Leverett still leads overall with 27 points to Eliot's 23, while sports experts continue to express shock over Winthrop's dismal showing and extreme disapproval of Adams' first-place standing in tackle football. Standings TACKLE FOOTBALL W L T PTS 1. Adams 3 1 1 7 2. Dunster 2 0 2 6 Eliot 2 0 2 6 Kirkland 3 1 0 6 5. Leverett 2 1 1 5 Lowell 2 1 1 5 7. Winthrop...