Word: shock
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...JULY 1993, DEPUTY WHITE HOUSE counsel Vincent Foster wrote an anguished lament: "I was not meant for the job or the spotlight of public life in Washington. Here ruining people is considered sport." Nine days later, Foster was dead. Shock at the apparent suicide of one of President Clinton's top aides turned to mystery, then suspicion, as the White House became entangled in an ever widening net of questions. Among the confidential matters Foster was working on when he died was the Clintons' investment in Whitewater, an Arkansas land development launched in 1978 with the Clintons' partners...
Tubby Smith is one of the best tournament coaches in America. Look for him to make the Sweet 16 for the third straight year as Georgia will shock Purdue...
...loss to Mississippi did not come as a shock to the Crimson considering it had not played in an outdoor match all season until Saturday...
...polls from Arizona sank directly into their veins, that the G.O.P. elders clutched their chests and began to howl. Word went out that Dole was running a distant third behind Buchanan and Forbes. G.O.P. leaders in Washington began making hand-holding calls to big contributors and found them in shock. When the Beltway Republicans reached the Governors, they found some so spooked they were thinking of peeling off and finding another candidate to back. Everyone wanted to talk to someone, anyone, inside the Dole campaign. "It was just awful," said a party paramedic who rushed to the scene by telephone...
...Homes says she was inspired to write the book after Jesse Helms' attacks on the National Endowment for the Arts. Unfortunately, she takes it on too obviously. At certain points in the book, her pedophile narrator addresses the reader directly to explain that the book is not meant to shock but to show that he is really no different from us. 'I am no better or worse,' he insists. 'A social construct supported by judge, jury and tattletales has put me away because I threaten them.' "In other words," says Bellafante, "don't judge another man's form of sexual...