Word: shock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Athens pharmacist Evangellos Roussos, president of the committee. "They not only studied Italian, but attended cultural courses. It's inhuman to do this to them." Other parents and students are flying to Italy to protest in person. "The timing of the ban came as a total and complete shock," says Albert Schrager, 54, whose nonprofit Italo-American Medical Education Foundation has for five years shepherded American medical students into Italian med schools and invited Italian doctors to do research...
...aerospace plants across the country, the mood was no less sulfurous. "A great surprise and deep shock," said Bastian ("Buz") Hello, B-1 division manager of Rockwell International, prime contractor for the program. The champagne bottles that had been chilled in anticipation of a celebration remained corked. The gates that were about to swing open to thousands of new employees stayed closed. Many of the 40,000 executives, technicians and assembly-line workers already assigned to the B-1 from Long Island and Cincinnati to Los Angeles and Seattle talked gloomily of hunting for new jobs. The probability that lots...
...wailing to the loud, raucous, often brutal sounds of punk rock. For a year or so, punk has been flourishing in the seediest rock joints-a Bowery bar called CBGB's in New York, a dingy cavern called the Roxy in London, and The Rat in Boston. There, shock is chic. Musicians and listeners strut around in deliberately torn T shirts and jeans; ideally, the rips should be joined with safety pins. Another fad is baggy pants with a direct connection between fly and pocket. These are called dumpies. Swastika emblems go well with such outfits. In London...
...week's end Israeli voters were still recovering from the shock of the election; some were having second thoughts about ousting from power a party that was almost a father image to the country. "I did not want Begin as Premier," said Yehudit Chen, 19, a female soldier. "I wanted Peres. I never thought that this would be the outcome of my vote." Avraham Aharanson, head of a Tel Aviv private investigating company and a lifelong Labor supporter, confessed that "I haven't been able to work for three days. I feel this is a very dangerous development...
...have become so commonplace that exposing them is emerging as a growth industry in itself. Last week when the London tabloid Daily Mail published an expose of an elaborate system of alleged bribes and payoffs maintained by Britain's big, government-controlled automaker, British Leyland Motor Corp., the shock waves reached the highest levels of Britain's shaky Labor government...