Word: shock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their part, while the bombing was in progress, most Americans seemed simply baffled or numbed; antiwar groups mounted only scattered, sparsely supported protests. It was partly a matter of shock at the sudden turn of events. After two decades of sustaining South Viet Nam intravenously with aid, and after eleven years of substantial military intervention, first with President Kennedy's advisers and later with Lyndon Johnson's half a million troops, the U.S. had seemed in November and until mid-December about to disengage altogether. Then, with stupefying speed, promises of a negotiated settlement turned into a harshly...
...blood substitute is likely to be useful in basic research, as a possible treatment for leukemia, anemia and shock and in organ transplants and blood transfusions for surgery...
...signatories, who represent almost three quarters the 21-member Council, expressed "shock and revulsion at the 12 days of terror bombing inflicted by our nation on North Vietnam...
Judge: So you wanted to score a publicity hit and shock the bon bourgeois...
...ground rules are changing -and radically. The first shock to developers came last September, when the state supreme court ruled on a case called Friends of Mammoth Mountain v. Mono County. The issue was whether the "spirit" of California's Environmental Quality Act of 1970, which requires state agencies to publish detailed reports on the environmental "impact" of their projects, also applied to private developers. The court, which has often acted as a trail blazer for other states, answered unequivocally: "To limit the operation of the E.Q.A. solely to what are essentially public works projects would frustrate the effectiveness...