Word: shock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...surface, perhaps it's justified: there are coed dorms here, even coed bathrooms, and everyone talks about sex all the time. You will be able to tell your parents Harvard sex stories that will shock them. But as always with such things, the talk outweighs the action. Harvard's generally exotic image is what makes the sex-haven...
Western participants in the international fencing matches in Budapest last month expressed shock at the conspicuous absence of Pawlowski. Members of the now crippled Polish team, meanwhile, were plainly fearful of openly discussing the fate of their champion. Italian Fencer Mario Aldo Montano, twice the world champion, doubted tales that Pawlowski had been accused of espionage. "It is not the sort of thing one would expect of Pawlowski," said Montano. "He is so correct -a gentleman very much in the tradition of fencing." Added American Fencer Jack Keane, captain of the Pan American fencing team, who has often competed with...
...shock of White Friday, however, could indirectly reduce Brazil's output over the longer run. The Brazilian government is eager to see coffee planting moved northward, away from the danger of frost, so it may encourage growers in Paraná and São Paulo to switch to soybeans. But if new areas of cultivation do not open up quickly, Brazil's exportable crop, which accounted for 32% of the world coffee trade in 1974-75, could fall drastically...
Think about this for a minute: exactly 30 years and two days ago people in Hiroshima, Japan, woke up in the morning and saw a huge silent brilliant flash of light in the sky that brought with it a moment later a great, deadly shock force. The flash and the shock came from a bomb, one that an American in a plane had dropped; there days later, 30 years ago tomorrow, another American plane dropped another atomic bomb on Nagasaki...
...probably think I am crazy to go on like this: here I have set out to write a confession that is meant to hit you with the shock or recognition, and instead you are sitting there thinking I am thoroughly warped. Well, what can I tell you? If I had had them, I would have been a completely different person. I honestly believe that...