Word: shock
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with profound shock and deep sorrow that we mourn the loss of 23 Israelis who were killed by two terrorist bus bombs this past Sunday. May their memories be for a blessing...
Every four years, the New Hampshire primary is accompanied by a deluge of news stories detailing why the state is an unlikely choice to have such a disproportionate say in selecting the next president. But New Hampshire residents take their responsibility seriously, and they love to shock the world. This year's New Hampshire primary campaign showed the best and worst sides of our election process. Candidates may rise and fall in the coming weeks, but no one should take Tuesday night's primary results for Granite...
Exactly a century ago, the United States was undergoing a transformation from the Agricultural to the Industrial Age. Populism spread through the farm states like a prairie fire. In a huge shock, the Democrats nominated William Jennings Bryan who transformed the party and realigned American politics. He called for term limits, attacked federal judges and harshly castigated the corporations. The Democrats, in 1896, aligned themselves with a vanishing world, and the Republicans went on to hold the White House for all but eight of the next 36 years...
...really big shock, when you're sitting in your room and someone invades your space," she said. "Now that we've had so many problems, I'd like to see locking bathroom doors and automatic locking doors...
...sights he would see would shock and disturb him (they disturb us, anyway). Students dodging for cover from speeding taxis with only their backpacks as shields. Business people in nice clothes swearing at drivers who are trying to make the green light. Little Boston and Cambridge children who have had long practice staring down drivers until they turn around and go the wrong way down a one-way street...