Word: shock
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...plot of Erica Jong's new novel, Any Woman's Blues quite literally never gets out of bed. As the author herself says in the forward to the novel, "[It] is not for the prudish...It is throbbing and raw to a degree that will shock the most hardened libertine...
...like reading this thesis. Its topic will shock...
Senate President William Bulger administered the oath of office to Weld and Lt. Gov. A. Paul Cellucci shortly after noon, ushering in an era of Republican leadership to take charge of a state reeling from the shock of a serious regional recession...
...other things, a ban on high-level political exchanges -- by twice sending Scowcroft and Deputy Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger to the Chinese capital; their first visit, in July, came to light only last week. Beijing has yet to reciprocate with any significant concession, and last week expressed "utmost shock and strong condemnation" of the Panama invasion. But the U.S. moves furthered a bold and individual policy. Bush, who was once envoy to China, believes the strategic relationship with the Middle Kingdom to be all important and is willing to nurture it at whatever cost in criticism...
...probably always be a mystery. In a way, they become more mysterious as time goes on, if only because he becomes more radical. The sweeping changes he has instigated this past year in the U.S.S.R., particularly free expression and democratization, and his transfusion of counterrevolution into Eastern Europe would shock not only the late Andrei Gromyko, who nominated Gorbachev for the general secretaryship in 1985, but the Gorbachev of five years ago as well...