Word: shock
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Serious Students. The SST advocates are directly pressuring Congress as well. AFL-CIO President George Meany told a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee that the entire future of the American aerospace industry, already "in a state of economic shock," was at stake. He claimed that the SST could generate 50,000 aerospace jobs and another 150,000 in related industries. The U.S. is now too late to catch other nations in the first generation of SSTs, Meany argued, and it must hurry to "enter the competition for the second generation -the SSTs of the 1980s and 1990s...
Captain Ernest Medina, Calley's superior officer, who commanded Charlie Company on its sweep into the South Vietnamese village, testified, as Calley had earlier, to the shock effects of combat. Like Calley, he recited a grisly story about the company's casualties when the men walked over a Viet Cong minefield 20 days before the massacre. One man hit by mine fragments, said Medina, "was split as if somebody had taken a cleaver right up from his crotch all the way to his chest cavity." Discussing the day of the massacre, Medina said: "For those...
Running Conflict. The broadcast ultimatum came as a stunning shock to Prime Minister Suleyman Demirel, 46, who was fond of saying that only a parliamentary majority could depose him. But the military left him no room for maneuver, and he quickly resigned...
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Harvard was clearly playing consolation hockey, but the Crimson can hardly be blamed for its frustrated effort. Fifteen hours before Harvard stepped on the ice to play Denver, it had stumbled off the ice in shock, eliminated by an inferior Minnesota team in overtime after holding the lead for all but the last seven seconds of regulation play...