Word: shock
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...interest. She made something of a crusade for Edvard Radzinsky's The Last Tsar, getting what Rubin calls her SWAT team of assistants to promote the book. Most days she lunched at her desk on carrot and celery sticks. Says Doubleday associate publisher Marly Russoff: "It was always a shock for the first few times when you'd pass her in the hall. She's sort of an icon. But she didn't put a distance between herself and other people...
...revelations of the past three decades, alive. She provided an image of herself too, perhaps more than she knew. The day before she died, a young schoolteacher in New York City who hadn't even been born when she spoke to Teddy White, told me of his shock that she was leaving us. "I thought she would be like Guinevere," he said. "I thought she would ride off on a horse, in her beautiful silence, and never...
...didn't come as a shock when I found out that I wasn't speaking at this year's Commencement. There were two minor barriers standing in my way: I didn't apply and I'm a sophomore...
Although the morale shock from this type of loss is usually a problem, it is the least of the Crimson's worries at the point. With their fifthplace finish, the lightweights may not be able to defend their 1993 national championship. Only the top three crews from Sprints go to Nationals...
McCavana says he does not know how the "shock"of entering the house system could be minimized...