Word: shock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...surveys find that not more than 20% of the public go along with the proposition "We have been through bad times before, and things will once more return to the way they used to be." California Pollster Mervin Field assesses the public mood as one of "muted outrage, semi-shock-if not full shock -numbness, perplexity." Typically, a bewildered airline executive in Manhattan complains: "My salary has doubled in the past five years. I can't ask the company for more, they've been good to me already. But I can't keep up with expenses...
...Soviet leaders' decision to deprive Solzhenitsyn of his citizenship and fling him out of Russia was a shrewdly calculated maneuver to rid themselves of their most eloquent critic while defusing the explosion of protest in the West. Although many European leaders expressed shock last week at Solzhenitsyn's summary banishment, the world wide response was largely one of relief. The Kremlin's solution was made to appear very nearly humane, in contrast with the worst that had been feared...
...Left of students who left the universities to work with landless peasants and urban workers, said only that they would remain in Chile "to fulfill our obligations." They consciously chose a future of furtive meetings and constant fear which for some of them will surely culminate in electric-shock tortures and machine-gun executions...
...shock to those who actually see Pompidou is all the greater because the French press and television have gone out of their way to mask his difficulties. Most magazines and newspapers refuse to show telling closeups, and the government-controlled television network has been told by the government to try to show him only in profile...
When Reston began working for The Times's London bureau in 1939, the U.S. had not yet felt the shock waves of the Vietnam War; most Americans shared Reston's faith in America's innate goodness. The day after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, Reston wrote: "The United States went to war today as a great nation should--with simplicity, dignity, and unprecedented unity...