Word: shock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shock troops will be drawn from the Communist Youth League, which was virtually destroyed during the Cultural Revolution but is now being carefully reconstructed. Last November Mao issued "important instructions" to rectify and rebuild the league. Since then, preparatory conferences have been held in hundreds of cities and counties. Party workers are calling for the enlistment of young people who "have studied Marxism-Leninism and Mao's thought hard, actively taken part in great revolutionary campaigns, and integrated closely with the masses." Youths who are being recruited to join the league receive promises of such social luxuries as libraries...
...business, which sells replacement parts for strip-mining equipment, and his family is a whole lot richer than all but a small percentage of Americans. For another, the Louds permitted the filming. But anyone who has ever raised children, or who can remember his own childhood, will feel a shock of recognition seeing Gilbert's film. "It was a terrific family in many ways," says Alan Raymond, who shot most of the scenes. "Both Pat and Bill tried to be good parents...
WITH the first paycheck of the new year, American wage earners face an unpleasant shock: Social Security deductions 35% higher than last year. The surprise will be particularly great for those employees earning more than $9,000 who paid their debt to Social Security early in 1972 and for the past few months had been receiving paychecks free of deductions marked "PICA" (Federal Insurance Contribution...
Wilson earlier today expressed shock at Dunlop's resignation, and declined to speculate concerning his own future. He said he viewed the position with some reluctance, because he said he feared it prevented Faculty members from continuing their academic work. "I'm inclined to think I would like to continue teaching and research," he said...
Perhaps it was. Although Jesus is mentioned only in the title-presumably for shock value-the central character is "the man on a cross." But the real target of Kenan's satire was the quality of life in modern secular Israel and particularly its all-pervading militarism. That, the author claims, is the real reason why his revue was banned from the stage...