Word: shock
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...political disruption to a land whose citizens believed they had achieved peace and stability. Mexicans grieved not just for Colosio but for themselves and a future they now viewed with trepidation. In the weeks ahead, they will discover whether their institutions and maturity are sufficient to handle the shock...
...consider him a "right-wing zealot" out to get the President), those statements were misinterpreted as a demand that Stephens be fired. Still, as a Clinton aide admits, while "the actual words used before the grand jury regarding how we felt about the RTC iring Stephens were 'surprise and shock,' among ourselves the words we use when we discuss it are what they call 'expletives deleted...
Many rockers also played in bands during highschool, most notably Strauch. His New York band,The Sacred Cows, played "shock-tactic free jazz;we wore dresses and masks. Our drummer was founddead in a gutter. I'm not kidding...
...prove that point, Heatherton told subjectsthat they would undergo electric shock afterspending 20 minutes in front of mass quantities ofice cream. Fear of electric shock had no effect,Heaterton found, and eating patterns remainedconsistent with the control group...
...friend just sent me a copy of your March 7 feature article "Student Journal Ceases to Shock: The Peninsula No Longer Influences," for which I was interviewed by the article's author. Please permit me to correct some of the factual claims and challenge the central thesis of the article...