Word: shock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Historians of the Nixon Administration may well conclude that the President's economic shock programs of 1971 first took shape during a White House briefing on foreign trade last April. It was conducted by a scholarly looking supersalesman, Peter George Peterson, who three months earlier had resigned as chairman of Chicago's Bell & Howell to become Nixon's adviser on foreign economic affairs. Using slides and flip charts, Peterson forcefully drove home to the President for the first time the seriousness of the nation's slipping trade position and one of its causes, the decline...
...Huskies do have a couple of decent players. Alan Dunkle leads Northeastern in goal scoring, and tallied a nice breakaway goal against Harvard in January. Northeastern captain and goalie, Dan Eberly, must be in a state of permanent shell shock after playing behind the Huskie defense for three years, but he can be good, and he has apparently retained his spirit. "The surprising thing is that we keep getting up for the next game," he said last week...
Millions of Americans are in for a shock when they open their pay envelopes this month. Despite the well-publicized tax relief voted by Congress, take-home pay will be reduced in many instances. The total federal tax bite will indeed be less than last year, but the rates of tax withholding have been changed, with the result that people in the upper-middle and higher brackets will be hard-hit. For example, the amount withheld from the wages of a married worker with two children who earns $250 a week will remain virtually unchanged...
...this play, the philandering Pontagnac (Peter Donat) has tracked Lucienne (Roberta Maxwell) to her home. She is shocked by his overt proposition, and he is chagrined to encounter her husband Vatelin (Richard Curnock), who happens to be an old friend. Shock and chagrin are three-quarters of the emotions in a Feydeau farce. Lucienne soon meets Mme. Pontagnac (Tudi Wiggins), and the two make a compact that if either woman is betrayed by her husband, she will make him a cuckold in revenge...
...which set the new requirement to reduce eye injuries, was precise in its standards. The lenses will not be unbreakable or shatterproof, but they must be sufficiently tempered to withstand a specific shock-a steel ball weighing .56 oz. dropped from a height of 50 in. The optician is supposed to make the drop test, aiming at the center of the lens, before releasing the glasses...