Word: shock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more pressing concern, however, is the controversy's effect on the agents operating under deep cover in Communist and other potential enemy countries and on allied and other friendly intelligence organizations. He told TIME Correspondent Strobe Talbott: "A lot of them are in a state of shock. They cannot put into their own framework this idea of going on television, going to Capitol Hill, going into these secrets. They ask, 'Are we going to get in the middle of this? Is it going to come out that we have this secret relationship...
...crack airborne division back to their original base headquarters near Saigon's Tan Son Nhut airport. Thieu felt it necessary to beef up the defense of the capital, just in case the Communists decided to concentrate their forces on Saigon itself. The transfer of the troops sent a shock wave through the streets of Hue. Without a government order to do so, the mayor advised his people "to leave as quickly as possible...
When Guyton first got to Radcliffe from Jackson, Miss., she enjoyed telling people that she wanted to be a housewife--partly because she really did want to be a housewife, but partly for the "shock effect...
...critics were writing ponderous essays about Reinhardt's work and collectors were buying it for thousands of dollars, it was perhaps only in the hope that the magic moment, the shock of recognition, would come to them. They must have felt there was something profound there, as they must have when they looked at all the other random splotches of paint, stripes, near-empty canvases and soup cans of the fifties and sixties...
...Bach's music, much as millions of P.D.Q.'s contemporaries caught the bubonic plague and various other diseases. After beginning the concert with an accurate and witty performance of Charles Ives's Country Band March. Everett conducted a series of progressively less interesting pieces, as if to lessen the shock of the Serenoodle. And if the Band's playing was occasionally imprecise or out of tune, that was all right. One felt that, somehow, P.D.Q. wouldn't have wanted it any other...