Word: shock
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Atlantan Ted Miltiades watched the FBI's plea for help with its Olympic-bombing investigation on TV last week, he had a shock of recognition: the bomb had exploded directly behind a fan-shaped Greek statue he had been photographing only hours before the deadly blast. Miltiades went back to his photos and found a rear shot of a white man in khaki shorts wearing a knapsack that looked like the one the FBI said had contained the bomb. He called the FBI's hotline, and within minutes an agent was at his door to whisk the picture away...
...town needed a miracle. And over Thanksgiving weekend it got one. With a mixture of shock and gratitude, Roby residents learned that 39 of their own had won more than $1 million each in the Texas state lottery. They belonged to a pool of 43 people organized by Peggy Dickson, 48, a bookkeeper at the town's cotton gin. Each wagered $10, enabling the pool to buy 430 tickets. The one that won paid $46.7 million--that's $54,255.81 a person each year for the next 20 years, or roughly $40,000 after taxes. Dickson had never before organized...
...tension but are somewhat artificial and unconvincing. Azalea is the flowering know-it-all. Stubborn and unreceptive to motherly advice, she snaps defensively in response to every comment. She is a liberated student who savors the right to drink a glass of wine at lunch, if only for the shock value it has in startling her mother. She has become a vegetarian who protests for animal rights and bewails the meaninglessness of grades. She has changed her major and her boyfriend more times than she can count, much to her mother's chagrin. But Jane has also changed since...
...Corporate Summer Internships for Undergraduate Students of Color," the booklet's cover read. I hesitated in shock and embarrassment before quietly exiting the room and thus relieving it of its only Caucasian presence. My first reaction as I returned to my dorm was one of simple amusement. In fact, I still find the whole episode to be extremely funny. However, as I have given the experience some more thought, my entertainment has become polluted by a deep sense of disturbance...
...does not apply and the damages are taxable," Breyer said. Justice Antonin Scalia dissented, saying "both types of damages are 'received on account of the personal injury.'" The decision came in the case of O'Gilvie vs. U.S., where the family of Betty O'Gilvie, who died of toxic shock syndrome, won $10 million in punitive damages from International Playtex, the maker of the tampons used by Mrs. O'Gilvie. Tuesday's decisions upheld rulings that forced the family to pay about $1.3 million in federal taxes on that amount...