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Word: shock (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...drop of $10 million in 1974-75 from budgeted estimates overall or a drop of $5 million in gifts for current use would be a real shock and problem enough without considering the horror of an overall thirty million dollar drop...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MOTHER HUBBARD'S DOG | 10/16/1974 | See Source »

Near the end of the half, B.C. had recovered from the shock of the Harvard onslaught well enough to mount an attack...

Author: By David A. Copithorne, | Title: Rugby Club Crushes B.C. In Opening Game Shutout | 10/7/1974 | See Source »

...game that seemed to be dominated by the Crimson offense and defense from start to near-finish, that saw a few Harvard records rewritten, the final score came as quite a shock to many people...

Author: By Thomas Aronson, | Title: Late Rally Sparks Rutgers Over Crimson, 24-21 | 10/7/1974 | See Source »

Circumstantial Evidence. Sabin's retraction comes as something of a shock to Tarro, who is now in Italy continuing his work. Tarro insists that others -including several U.S. researchers -have duplicated his results and says that he plans to present proof of their validity at international meetings in Germany and Italy next month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Premature Indictment? | 9/30/1974 | See Source »

...singularity is a mystery he often probed in the diary. Consonant with that sun's pure shaft of light he perceived a terrifying black that seemed to trifle with life, as the deathly instant of blindness when you emerge from the sea in summer or the shock of an animal's eyes lit by the headlights on a car, before it is dark again...

Author: By Anemona Hartocollis, | Title: Climbing on Words | 9/26/1974 | See Source »

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