Word: shock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shock to be reminded that until someone suggested Mein Kampf as a title, Adolf Hitler wanted to call his book Four and a Half Years of Struggle Against Lies, Stupidity and Cowardice. Everybody needs an editor. Besides, the FÜhrer was that kind of fellow. But T.S. Eliot! Could that austere poet's most celebrated work actually have sprung from sweaty sessions with pencil stubs and mutual gropings after the mot juste! It has always been painful to imagine, even though for 50 or so years Ezra Pound has been acknowledged as much more than The Waste Land...
...until the next morning when his car was discovered under the Dike Bridge. A week afterward, he went on television with a carefully crafted and largely ghostwritten statement, pleading that while his conduct was indeed "indefensible," his doctors "informed me that I suffered a cerebral concussion as well as shock." In the national mind, the lacunae and the doubts remain. That night will surely be replayed endlessly if Kennedy wins the nomination...
...Yale Daily New's Lew Schwartz sat in quiet shock at the post-game party in the News's posh office on York St. last Saturday noon...
...shock-tube laboratory, shock waves which are passed through gases at high temperatures will yield data about the gases physical properties...
...initial shock did cause numerous cliff falls and rock slides along Amchitka's shoreline. A flurry of barely noticeable tremors followed as the tormented earth adjusted itself around the 800-ft.-wide subterranean cavity created by the blast: 38 hours later, there was a last convulsive shudder as the cavity collapsed. But the danger of radioactive releases was apparently past. The radioactive material is virtually sealed in place by rock compacted by the pressure of the monster explosion...