Word: shock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...confront the President with a .45 in her hand. Bugliosi, now in private practice, ticked off four reasons she might have done it. "First, the entire Manson family religion is based on killing. They enjoy it. Second, their purpose has always been to draw attention to themselves and to shock the world. Third, as recently as a month ago, Manson was accusing Nixon of the responsibility for his conviction, and Ford was appointed by Nixon. Fourth, there is a lot of competition between the girls, and Squeaky was trying to impress Charlie. They all want to be Charlie...
...more objectionable than the proposed wage reform was the industrial-relations expert who was selected to negotiate it−Fred Straw. Peach describes Straw as "a hatchet man," and even John Owen concedes that he was a rather aloof, overbearing man who gave the unions the false impression that "shock troops of management were coming in to sort things...
...Testament, Paul's views on sexuality were colored by his shock at the Greco-Roman world at the time. The homosexuality of Paul's era, says Norman Pittenger of England's Cambridge University Faculty of Divinity, "was often just licentious, not in any way a noble and moral affair as it had been among many of the Greeks of, say, Plato's time." Some argue that today's homosexuals, if not noble, are often truly loving. The British Society of Friends in its book Toward a Quaker View on Sex maintains that "it is the nature and quality...
...rate and that the price rise OPEC is expected to announce soon may add another. Last week the pessimists drew some support from an unexpected source: a major oil company. In a widely noted letter to congressmen, Mobil Chairman Rawleigh Warner Jr. said that sudden decontrol might be "a shock" to the recovery and could slash consumer buying power by as much as $8 billion-well above the Administration's estimate of $5.3 billion...
...Administration and the congressional Democrats fail to agree on a gradual phaseout of controls this time around, the nation could be in for a possibly painful test of just how sharp the shock of immediate decontrol could...