Word: shock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ring of Truth. Peeling off the surgical mask, Nolen reveals the semi-deity behind it as a bundle of human wiles and failings. In passages that entertain as well as shock, he tells how he and his colleagues frightened patients' families into giving blood-not to save their loved ones, but to fill the bank for others. He explains why so few patients were recorded as having died on the operating table: to avoid paper work, the doctors quietly sewed up the corpses and let them "die" after surgery...
Last September the White House announced that the Soviet Union was building a base to service missile-carrying submarines at the south Cuban port of Cienfuegos. The news set off shock waves of fear that an East-West confrontation comparable to the 1962 Cuban missile crisis was imminent. But then the Soviets removed their submarine tender from Cienfuegos, and the moment of alarm seemed to pass...
...fifth recession since World War II-and the mildest-but it interrupted the greatest advance of prosperity that the nation had ever known. The shock of unexpected reverses left deep psychological scars on businessmen, workers, shareholders and politicians. Almost every segment of the population felt aggrieved. Reflecting the uncommon discontent, Brooks McCormick, president of International Harvester Co., said: "The nicest thing about 1970 is that it's over...
...paper is a form of unsecured, short-term IOU. When money became difficult to borrow from banks, scores of corporations issued commercial paper to raise funds. Because such securities are usually bought by other companies that have spare cash to invest, a series of defaults could have spread financial shock waves throughout the U.S. business community. The Penn Central debacle caused well-founded fears that the $40 billion market in commercial paper might fall apart, starting a series of business failures...
...ridden London warehouse that sagged over the Thames and was called Warren's Blacking Factory. At age twelve, Dickens was yanked from school and put to work there while his father and the rest of the family went into debtors' prison. So traumatic was his sense of shock and abandonment that although the experience lasted no more than five months, as a grown man he still would burst into tears whenever he found himself back in the neighborhood...