Word: shock
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Austin themselves each shared their enthusiasm for the occasion; Austin reflected the jovial atmosphere by recounting a phone conversation with an elderly woman who called her when the appointment was announced. After expressing some shock at how far Harvard had come to be able to appoint "Lady Masters," the woman on the phone concluded with, "You go, girl...
...Waves of shock have spread around campus this fall as students dialing the "Menu Man" have heard strange voices on the other end of the line...
...didn't actually get to go because of my bio lab, but nonetheless I find the whole concept quite astounding. To understand my shock, you would have to see it all in light of what I saw this past summer...
Your article "Free Music Online" [PERSONAL TIME: YOUR TECHNOLOGY, Sept. 21] was a shock. It clearly implied that pirating music off the Internet is O.K. It is not. It is theft, pure and simple. Providing, as you have, a "how-to" guide compounds the offense by giving the weak and misguided a rationale for their infringements: "Hey, everyone is doing it. I learned how in TIME magazine." You really should know better. PETER R. HAJE, Executive Vice President and General Counsel Time Warner Inc. New York City...
Still, surgeons who perform radical, headline-grabbing operations know the value of good publicity. So it was something of a shock to an international team poised to perform the world's first successful hand transplant to discover that they had chosen a man with a record as long, so to speak...