Word: shock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...passing of Pope John Paul I [Oct. 9] was a terrible shock. Many people are going to wonder how God could snatch him away before his time. But in the long run, I believe he did what he was raised up to do and did it well. He showed us what the esse of the papal office is and, underneath, has always been: a simple, loving pastor rather than a crowned autocrat. His example was the vital thing...
...stare suddenly brings a hush over the audience. But after a second the boy regains his senses and goes on the attack. He lands a right jab squarely on Dan's nose; Dan reels and then stands perfectly still. In a moment, his face contorts in pain, fear, shock or whatever else a child feels when he's clunked hard. As the tears begin pouring, his father Dan Sr. grabs him out of the ring and holds him. "Barbaric," mutters Craig Smith, 23, sitting at ringside. Not so, say the two boys' parents, sitting together after...
...choice to become a "saint" by sacrificing her youth to the care of a cripple. She questions the purity of her motives--makes her saintliness appear sinful and her vices sacremental. In retrospect she sees her decision to lose her virginity, for instance, as nothing but an attempt to shock her father into attention. Incestuous lovehate fro him made her sleep with his (only) disciple; perhaps she even intended to trigger her father's heart attack a few months later...
...highlights of the area was a trip to the much-ballyhooed Harvard campus and Cambridge. Were we in for a shock! The campus was seedy, dirty and an overall state of decay. Even more of a shock was the city of Cambridge. The dirt and filth in the streets was comparable to that of the most run-down slum in New York...most store windows looked as they hadn't been washed in years and the restaurants and stores had an overall seedy look. I am sorry to say that we were unable to come up with any reasonable defense...
...sending Engelhard as a U.S. representative to African state ceremonies. In 1964, for instance, Engelhard asked the president to send him as U.S. representative to Zambia's independence ceremonies. Johnson agreed, and throughout black Africa, where Engelhard was universally viewed as a persona non grata, African leaders reacted with shock and indignation...