Word: shock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hope the army will not have to come out, because if it does, it will be to kill." When General Augusto Pinochet Ugarte issued that grim warning in 1971, it sent shock waves across Chile...
...campaign proved to be the most acrimonious in Sweden's generally placid political history. Palme accused his enemies of such dirty tricks as circulating anonymous letters claiming that he is subject to wild temper tantrums and has received electric shock treatments in mental hospitals: Coalition spokesmen, for their part, were angered by Palme's inflammatory speechmaking...
Middle-earth is very nearly as large as the United States east of the Mississippi. Frodo and some true-hearted companions endure Ringwraiths and Barrow-wights, hordes of Ores, who are Sauron's shock troops, and much cloak-and-daggering. When Frodo triumphs, finally, and destroys the ring, it is only with the perverse collaboration of Gollum, a pitiably evil creature with froglike feet who sounds a bit like Oliver Twist's Fagin and is one of the memorable minor characters in English literature...
...school is a sweet and easy time of life. High school has its struggles, of course; with teachers and sweethearts, with parents and pimples. But these struggles seem, on the verge of later ones, manageable and self-contained. High school is innocence and its end inevitably comes as a shock...
...shock, anger and disbelief, Americans this year have watched food scarcities drive grocery bills out of sight and the U.S. shut out eager foreign buyers by clamping export controls on soybeans and some other crops. Round the world, concern about food shortages grows. In Rome last week, Addeke H. Boerma, director general of the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization, called officials of five major farming nations, including the U.S., to an urgent conference Sept. 20 that will consider ways to deal with a threatened global wheat pinch. U.S. agriculture, long regarded as a bottomless cornucopia whose output...