Word: shock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...believes Mrs. Gandhi "administered to the country a massive punch in the jaw, which it probably needed." He adds that if the government can bring the emergency to an end within six months, "the retrospective view will be that it has benefited the country and given a badly needed shock to a society whose values were crumbling...
BROWN-HOLY CROSS--There is no real reason to believe that the winless Crusaders will get it together today and shock unbeaten Brown. No reason whatsoever. Brown 29, Holy Cross...
...outside events and a massive misrule that started long before Mayor Abraham Beame came to of fice. It is so far gone that reform may no longer be possible without serious social unrest. Yet the immediate problem is what its default might do to the rest of the country. Shock waves from the city's financial collapse could hurt the national and perhaps even the world economies...
...Brownmiller: "It is nothing more or less than a conscious process of intimidation by which all men keep all women in a state of fear. Rather than society's aberrants or 'spoilers of purity,' men who commit rape have served in effect as front-line masculine shock troops, terrorist guerrillas in the longest sustained battle the world has ever known...
Slower Pace. From the standpoint of the recovering economy, there is an argument for avoiding the shock of an increase in withholding rates. Beyond that, signals are mixed: they cry neither for nor against a bigger tax reduction...