Word: shock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even after months of grisly testimony, the jury's stern judgment came as a shock. It was as though the verdict had finally brought the ultimate horror of My Lai home to Americans, and acceptance of that horror was agonizing. The widespread initial reaction to My Lai?that no American soldier could have done such a thing?in many cases changed to the notion that Calley had only been doing his duty. In a new book called Sanctions for Evil, the title of one chapter sardonically sums up the horrendous confusion: "It Never Happened and Besides They Deserved It." With...
...Shocks. The clerk had reached only the fourth name, that of New Mexico Democrat Clinton Anderson, when the Administration received its first shock. Anderson, an intimate of one of the SST's prime supporters, Washington...
...build, test out and put together countless parts. Once a craft goes into production, machines can take over a much bigger part of the work. Because the SST was at a stage in which it had high manpower requirements, the Senate vote last week was a severe shock to the industry...
...Future Shock, Toffler...
...guilt-ridden hallucinations, his estate and manufacturing company fall into hopeless disarray. Decisions are left unmade, allowances stop, family discipline falls apart and, worse, a Swiss bank account number is lost. The process of the film becomes an attempt on the part of his family, mistress, and attendants, to shock Antonio back into health by acting out various psychological traumas of his past (a punishment in which he is locked in his room with a pig, a confirmation service disrupted by revolutionaries, a platitude-laden speech before dissatisfied workers). Treated as a child. Antonio responds as a child, and throughout...