Word: shock
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard players and fans went into shock...
...ranks,TIME Defense correspondent Mark Thompsonsays. Predictably, Democrats blasted Helms -- White House Chief of Staff Leon Panetta last night suggested the GOP rethink whether someone with such "extreme views" should chair such a powerful committee -- but many of the generals and G.I.s Helms claimed to speak for were also shocked. "Even those who have great disdain for Clinton now have disdain for Helms," say Thompson, who canvassed the military top-to-bottom. "One, they don't like the implication that the military is ready to take a pot shot at the President. And two, they perceive that folks overseas...
...well it should. Shostakovich's first impulses retain their power to shock and thrill even after 60 years, and the elements that so offended Stalin -- the detumescent sound of the slide trombones in the rape scene, or the drunken peasant's breakdown after he discovers the corpse of Katerina's husband -- still pack a wallop...
...Electric Shock...
...State Department today outlined a U.S. policy option: stepping up military involvement -- with a $5 billion price tag. With the funding, U.S. forces could increase air strikes, supply weapons ranging from tanks to rocket-propelled grenades and train the Bosnian military. The price tag brought gasps of bipartisan congressional shock. "This is quite an eye-opener," said Sen. Frank Lautenberg, (D-N.J.), while House Foreign Affairs chairman Lee Hamilton (D-Ind.) warned that the strategy could "Americanize the war." And Rep. Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.), the future House Speaker, said there was no way the Administration could spend that...