Word: shock
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...crowd of about 200 gathered to watch the blaze, residents stood in front of their former homes crying tears of shock and disbelief...
...know whether we like the change once we come out of our collective state of shock...
Around the world, in constitutional monarchies still relying on the British monarch as the nominal head of state, constitutions will have to be rewritten and new forms of government adopted. In non-Commonwealth nations, the very shock of royal abolition may raise the issue of throwing out other kings and queens, without regard for an objective review and evaluation...
...Silver's repartee is only emotional bait for his favorite technique shock. One wishes he had more confidence in his comedy to deliver his messages instead. Insofar as Pterodactyls is billed as a dark comedy, the comedy cannot be ignored, but by the end of the play you may forget it ever made you laugh...
...terrorist wants to kill, but that is his means, not his goal. The point is to spread fear and shock on a massive scale, to instill a sense of helplessness. By that measure, Salah Abdel Rahim Nazal Souwi proved an excellent terrorist. Last Wednesday the 27-year-old Palestinian from the West Bank city of Kalkilya boarded the heavily traveled No. 5 bus in downtown Tel Aviv carrying a 22-lb. package of TNT. At 8:55 a.m., just after the bus passed Dizengoff Square in the heart of the shopping district, he stood up and blew himself...