Word: shock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...panic, no one was hurt in Mexico City, and only minor damage was reported. The epicenter of the quake, however, was located 150 miles southeast of the capital. There the shock proved devastating. As rescue work got under way, government officials feared that the death toll, initially estimated at 400, could reach 1,000. The quake also injured more than 4,000 people and left nearly 25,000 homeless...
...retired professor of international politics, while mowing his lawn recently in Washington, D.C., suffered severe shock when he became entangled in the live wires of his electric lawn mower. When he regained consciousness in the emergency ward, he did not know how many children he had, or recall that he was supposed to make a trip to California the next...
...boat toward a couple who had been thrown from their small speedboat, the Senator tried to reach them by tossing them a rope. Failing, he dived into the water fully clothed and rescued Mr. and Mrs. Glen Machlitt of North Hollywood. Goldwater pulled the Machlitts into his boat, in shock but still conscious, and turned them over to the harbor police, departing without waiting for praise...
...older ideas that are re-emerging are perhaps less comforting than the more optimistic ones they replace. Their revival casts some doubt on the popular notion that Americans must constantly change their ideas like their clothing. People may be suffering a severe case of future shock, but the reason may be not that they are unprepared for the future but that they tend to forget the past. So much that seems to happen for the first time has, in fact, happened many times before. Thus the temptation of the '60s was to think, overoptimistically, that good intentions could solve...
...Patman, chairman of the House Banking and Currency Committee, has urged President Nixon to order an interest-rate freeze or rollback, but there seems little chance that the Administration will take his advice. The best hope that bankers can offer is the rather wan one that eventually the psychological shock of a 10½% or 11% prime will finally make chiefs of big corporations think twice about seeking more loans...