Word: shock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cowhide which was then stuffed with boiled feathers. Enough feathers to fill a top hat were packed into each ball. The unreliable and easily rotted feathery endured until around 1848 when the discovery of gutta percha, an elastic gum found in the forests of Malaysia, sent shock waves through the golf industry...
Such pessimism would lose its shock value through sheer repitition were it not for the relief afforded by glittering and--to Western readers--unusual cantos like "The King in the Air," a poem somewhat closer to the vivid but unemotional imagery of the neo-classical tradition...
Industrial nations with faltering economies-especially Britain and Italy -and all the developing countries would be much harder hit. To pay their oil bills, they might well have to divert money from productive investments, thus increasing inflationary pressures and hurting their efforts to reduce unemployment. The psychological shock could be serious too. Says Economist Paul H. Frankel of London's Petroleum Economics Ltd.: "It is not at all certain that the world recovery is fully established. If the global economy is beginning to move down instead of up, OPEC'S price rise could be a critical factor aggravating...
Finally, Mr. Karnes suggests that Asian Americans could not possibly experience the kind of psychological burdens of cultural shock which would warrant their recognition as a minority. He proposes that such obstacles "should be overcome by the concerted efforts of groups such as the organization for Asian Americans now working in conjunction with the University." It might serve him to point out, then, that the tentative steps taken by the Admissions Office and the Dean of Students Office reflecting but not acknowledging recognition of Asian Americans as a minority are the direct result of such joint efforts, with such goals...
...then John Anderson entered the picture. Anderson not only revitalized the entire program, but he did so with such swiftness afoot that when the Bruins pulled off three consecutive winning seasons in 1973, '74 and '75, the entire city of Providence was declared in a state of shock...