Word: shock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...coach Joe Bertagna '73 watched in shock as the Crimson used the final minutes for goal-scoring practice. Bertagna is a former Harvard goaltender and was minding the nets for the Kings when his charges scored five unanswered goals...
...Dunne, who was elected last week as Cook County party leader. Dunne dropped a hint that he would not mind becoming mayor as well-which would give him control of the two posts that were the source of Daley's power. Dunne's suggestion came as a shock to many party regulars, who doubt that Daley's brand of one-man rule can be per-petuated-and who are, in fact, anxious to put the party and the mayoralty in separate hands. But the consolidation could happen, as anything can happen, in the brier patch of Chicago...
...incontestable: Vallayer-Coster's The White Soup Bowl (1771), with its beautifully rendered planes and rotundities of steaming tureen and crinkled napkin, comes close to Chardin in reverent and cadenced description of commonplace things. To see such works resurrected in this show-however few the samples-gives a shock of belated recognition: How can such talent have nearly disappeared...
...eyes. These star wombs are great clouds of gas and dust floating in interstellar space. Like the clouds that formed in the expanding primordial fireball shortly after the big bang, they consist mostly of nature's simplest molecule, hydrogen. A star is born when some force, perhaps a shock wave, drives enough of the hydrogen molecules in a cloud sufficiently close to one another that they are held together by their mutual gravity. As a result, a huge pocket of condensed gas, trillions of miles across, is formed at the edge of the larger cloud. In a model proposed...
James C. Thomson, curator of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism, said yesterday that Qoboza's detention will cause shock and outrage among his many friends and admirers in the American press community, in universities and in government circles...