Word: shock
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Shock turned to grief, followed by the hollow ache of the town's terrible loss. For weeks, Algona's ministers counseled their congregations. Funeral director Mike Schaaf, who buried the Dreesmans, organized a grief-recovery seminar, bringing from Des Moines a psychologist specializing in traumatic losses. "If the killing had occurred in a crack-ridden city like New York or Detroit," says Schaaf, "we would have understood. Not in Algona...
Trusting the Iranian government is a dicey enterprise for anyone, let alone for Tehran's blood enemy, Baghdad. So it came as no great shock when Tehran decided to keep the 142 Iraqi airplanes that fled to Iran early on in the gulf war. The announcement, though, does raise the question, Has Tehran reneged on an agreement with Baghdad for the safekeeping and return of the planes, which include the cream of Iraq's air force -- or was there no such deal in the first place...
...says, "The shock of recognition had passed through my body like a powerful current. Just for a moment I had met my sort, another of my species." The species connection is so strong that the father and the fiancee begin an affair that lasts until the night before Anna's wedding to Martyn. Their romantic liason ends when Martyn discovers them in mid-bondage and jumps to his death on the marble floor of the lobby of Anna's apartment building...
...Atwater discovered that Tom Turnipseed, a Democratic candidate for Congress, had received electric shock therapy while in college. Atwater allegedly planted a reporter to raise the issue at a press conference. Atwater told reporters that he would not talk to someone who had been "hooked up to jumper cables...
...unprepared viewers, the first exposure to Steve Urkel is apt to come as a shock. With oversize glasses, pants hiked up to his armpits, piercing nasal voice and snorting laugh, he's the nerd who came to dinner. When he isn't rattling off irrelevant factoids ("Did you know there are 99.3 million cows in the U.S.?") or speaking Japanese with the high school principal, he is making a general pest of himself with the family down the block. He is especially smitten with their 15-year-old daughter Laura, whom he showers with pet names ("Hi, my little Jell...