Word: shock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When the Communists released the names of their prisoners-and then the prisoners themselves-the families of 1,340 men had to bear a shock: those 1,340 were still officially listed as missing in action. Legally, the M.I.A.s are still alive, but their wives and children live in a limbo of both legal and personal uncertainties. Last week a salute to veterans was held at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas. Such public celebrations serve only to intensify the anguish of M.I.A.wives, and some stayed away. One such wife, interviewed by TIME'S Joseph J Kane, is Peggie Duggan...
...hastened to read some of Lovecraft's stories. I admit I disliked his stylistic mannerisms. He tells his tales through a troubled, dim, first-person narrator, and he saves the grisly denouement for the last sentence and then prints it in italics, as though that gives it greater shock value. Also repellent at first is the man's habit of stuffing his leisurely, Latinate sentences to repletion with adjectives and adverbs to modify, often tautologically, a stark noun or gruesome verb...
...true that Ohio has led the way in extensive use of "shock probation." The relative success of the measure is gratifying. However, let us not simply assume that shock probation works because "the first taste of prison has as much curative effect as the full dose." There are at least two other possibilities: 1) persons selected for shock probation by the judges may have needed no confinement; the prosecutory process alone was corrective; and 2) persons selected for shock probation may become worse social risks because they have been exposed to the confinement experience. Ohio has begun to study other...
...notion of wedding should come as no great shock. The campaign against the Viet Nam War is now all but over. Berrigan himself, writing in 1972, was beginning to argue that celibacy can be "an excuse to flee from the complexities of human love." Besides, the two peace rebels had grown closer together during months of shared adversity...
...time, he was deeply involved with another woman, yet suddenly was "expected to prove that I was a man." That was only the first shock. The second was discovering that Destinn had a tattoo of a boa constrictor circling her leg from the ankle to the upper thigh. "I am afraid I was not at my best that night, but she seemed not to mind...