Word: shock
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Students have built projects ranging from a low-pollution lawn mower motor to a shock-absorbing cello case, Howe says...
...concussion, as defined by the Professional Football Athletic Trainers Society, is a "jarring injury of the brain resulting in dysfunction." Simply put, it is a shock to the brain -- usually caused by a powerful blow to the head -- that can result in vertigo, disorientation and momentary unconsciousness, or even permanent memory loss, coma and death. Dr. Robert Cantu, a neurosurgeon at Emerson Hospital in Concord, Massachusetts, explains that when the head is hit, "the brain is shaken in the cranium much like Jell-O in a bowl...
...lesbian relationship shouldn't shock us, and neither should the inevitable murder, but somehow the viscerality and the emotional reality of violence manage to penetrate more effectively in "Heavenly, Creatures" than in a dozen "Pulp Fictions," Peter Jackson's film may flail from giant butterflies to the prossic rituals of tea-time, but in the end he manages to concentrate all the diffuse energy into pure, gritty horror...
...after the abrupt announcement that North House will become Pforzheimer House, residents say they are still getting over their initial shock...
...There was a lot of shock," said assistant senior tutor Dexter E. Callender. "They did not know what to expect...