Word: shock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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They called it Blackout Monday. All over the nation's capital bleary bureaucrats, lobbyists and pols stared over their morning newspapers in sudden shock. A shakeup? A scandal? A sudden outbreak of civility? No, far worse: Doonesbury was missing...
...week following the attack, says the OTA report, those living near the targets would be "in a state of shock, with their lives disrupted and further drastic changes inevitable ... People would face many immediate tasks: care of the injured, burial of the dead, search and rescue, and fire fighting." A major problem would be the treatment of the tens of thousands of third-degree burn victims. At present notes the report, the combined facilities of all U.S. hospitals can treat no more than 2,000 cases of severe burns...
...have things we would rather do than fight Harvard," Preusser adds--the University has met the expanding city and it's at the points they bump into each other that most of the tension can be seen. "All fall, it was one shock after another," Preusser says, counting down a long litany of complaints to back up her claim...
...overlay furor was the last in a series of Cambridge-Harvard clashes. "Since then they've been quiet, doing nothing to ameliorate or exacerbate the situation," Preusser said. "I don't think they're out to shock us anymore," Sullivan added. "Every time they act contrary to the interests of Cambridge, we stand ready to confront them. The city has a great deal of police power. We have the right to take them to court anytime," he added...
...turn-of-the-century essay, "The Most Prevalent Form of Degradation in Erotic Life," retains the power to shock to this day. The father of psychoanalysis argued gloomily that most men are driven to debase their sex partners. Perhaps worse, he said, they are often attracted to women they consider inferior...