Word: shock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first major shock was the disproportionate number of young blacks with college degrees who were unemployed and turning to alcohol and drugs. It was also obvious that the arrogance and greed of the white community remained largely unchanged. My wife, who happens to be white, was able to observe some of this firsthand. There was a prevailing hostility toward blacks, but what was most shocking was the automatic assumption by whites that all other whites shared this hostility. What has been harder for my wife to accept is the hostility of the black community toward her. I'm beginning...
...visit of former President Nixon last February. Hua then appeared to be imperturbable and placid. Despite the anguish on his face, Hua's gestures were certain and he shook hands firmly. Yet the immensity of the challenge he faces was etched into his features, lines of tension and shock betraying deep emotion and pain...
...fair to her family for her to pursue politics. She concluded it was-"if I would leave my problems at work and not take them home." Not long ago Leone Ackerly, 31, a bored middle-class housewife, decided to hire herself out as a maid. Her mother went into shock. Now Ackerly runs a string of six cleaning services. "My mother just thinks I'm the smartest thing since the mousetrap...
...responsibility for the defense rests with slightly built goalkeeper Fred Herold. As a sophomore last year, Herold emerged from nowhere to stand out in the nets almost as much as his bright shock of red hair stands out in a crowd. Herold registered an 83.7 per cent blocked shots average under often intense pressure last season...
...Dwyer, with his shock of white hair and Irish brogue, is a familiar figure. Nevertheless, he is trying to change his image. Identified as far back as anyone can remember with every possible liberal-left cause, he is casting himself as a "middle-of-the-road ethnic" in the probably forlorn hope of cutting into the Moynihan constituency. For all his radical past, he is also supported by the regular Democratic organization-showing that any renegade who stays around long enough eventually acquires respectability. The question is how much good this backing will...