Word: shock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gave me a shock of recognition when I read that Lloyd's of London is issuing kidnap-insurance policies [March...
...Hamilton was admitted to a hospital for shock, and she was still there one night last week when her husband headed nervously home from a local pub. Minutes later, John Hamilton was found dead a few yards from their doorstep, a single shot through the head...
...Your discussion of behavior modification in prisons gives me too much credit, if that is the word, for current practices. I have never recommended the use of electric shock, drugs which produce nausea or vomiting, or psychotherapy. I am concerned only with the prison environment, and even there only with its rewarding aspects. Prisoners have been subject to behavior modification as long as there have been prisons, and the results are only too well known. Something better can be done and is being done, as your article shows...
...Public Shock. The story posed another kind of problem for Star Publisher Eugene C. Pulliam, 84, and his son Eugene S., 59, assistant publisher of both the Star and the Indianapolis News. For six years their conservative papers have firmly backed Republican Mayor Richard Lugar, and the exposé came just as Lugar was launching a senatorial campaign against Democratic Incumbent Birch Bayh, a Pulliam target...
...public shock at the series spread, Lugar defensively pointed out the difference between an anonymous tipster and a grand-jury witness. He said citizens had sometimes brought him charges similar to those running in the Star. "When I've asked them to testify under oath before the Marion County grand jury," he complained, "many disappear." But Lugar's problem did not. Questions about police corruption began popping up at speeches given well outside Indianapolis, and Lugar decided to deal with the issue at home. He formed a seven-man committee to study the police department, began interviewing some...