Word: shock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Viet Nam and Laos to create "instant copter pads." The same task is being performed by an ultramodern weapon called a "fuel air bomb," which weighs up to 1½ tons. Dropped by parachute, it relies on the detonation of propane gas and air to create intense heat and shock waves, which effectively clear small landing areas...
...Patton State, alcoholics begin the five-week journey to sobriety by getting smashed. In the company of normal drinkers, they are allowed to order as many as 16 one-ounce drinks. Then they are given a nonelectric shock: a video-tape presentation of their drinking behavior. Most are dismayed to watch themselves ordering their drinks straight instead of mixed, gulping instead of sipping, and still tossing them off long after the normal drinkers have stopped...
Once a choice is made between working toward total abstinence or social drinking, the patients begin training. Each has electrodes attached to his hand. They can produce a shock when the bartender-therapist pushes a control button. Those who are to be abstainers know that they may receive a jolt every time they order drinks and a continuous shock as long as they have a glass in their hand: they are willing to risk the punishment to effect a cure. The would-be social drinker can consume as many as three mixed drinks without a shock -as long...
...Future Shock, Toffler...
...retiring hockey coach, Cooney Weiland, walked off the Boston Garden ice arm-in-arm with his All-American captain, Joe Cavanagh, for the last time to the ovation of dejected Cornell fans, B. U. cheerleaders, emotional alumni, local rink rats, and Section 18 fans in a state of complete shock...