Word: shock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...which, Chaleff says, came as a rude shock to Wee and Nicholson, who had been told to keep the whole matter quiet...
...back pages of national-circulation magazines are starting to push "Boston--this summer! The Bicentennial City! Where it all began!". I remember my shock my first Patriot's Day when a man in knee-breeches and a tricornered hat almost ran me over as he urged his galioping steed down Garden St And that was nothing compared to this year--as the Boston area museums are all too happily reminding us this week...
First, we must end all military and economic aid to military dictatorships. Will it never begin to shock us that government "of the people, for the people, by the people" is so seldom supported in our foreign policy, that our foreign aid is based on the principle "with interest from all, with charity to none"? The aid we now send simply pushes the day when people will be fed further into the future...
...shock was to the U.S., the Administration made it worse. It reacted in a schizophrenic mood, alternating between recrimination and caution. Behind the scenes, factions were vying to shape President Ford's public position. Officials close to Henry Kissinger felt that the Secretary of State's historic reputation was at stake and urged Ford to defend the Nixon-Kissinger Viet Nam policy that had produced the 1973 Paris accords, for which Kissinger won a Nobel Peace Prize. They wanted the major blame pinned on Congress for its alleged failure to live up to those accords by cutting back...
This very British novel is about a man whose face is his misfortune, by a woman whose name may be hers. Its protagonist, Godfrey Pettlement, is so hideous that children whimper and adults recoil in shock when they see him. Even horror-film producers find him too ugly to cast. "One doesn't think of you having a normal figure," somebody tells Pettlement. "It would be more in keeping if you somehow sploshed along the ground or were drawn by suction power...