Word: shock
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When Vovo Bossongo, an opposition-party member in the Democratic Republic of Congo, was dragged into a Kinshasa jail last January, the authorities skipped the usual beating. Instead, security agents poked the young woman with a 2-ft.-long shock baton whose electric jolts eventually left her unconscious. When Chinese prison guards tired of kicking Tibetan monk Palden Gyatso, they shoved a black clublike shock baton down his throat and charged it up. The current that raced through his body left him crumpled on the floor "in a pool of blood and excrement and in extreme pain," he recalls...
...from cattle prods or wires connected to a car battery. But now human-rights workers are running across more cases in which high-tech devices based on American technology are used. Over the past decade, more than 100 companies have sprung up around the world selling small, handheld shock weapons, costing $200 or less, designed for police use. Tens of thousands of cheaper devices, many advertised as giving blasts of 50,000 volts or more, have also been sold directly to consumers...
Clit Notes. The clitoris is a female sexual organ. The slang term "clit" sounds like "Cliff," the title of a popular series of study aids. The queer community would like you to see the word "clit" in a public setting. This should shock you. Seeing a poster like "Clit Notes" will help accustom you to the notion of overthrowing oppressive paradigms...
Yesterday, Hughes' blend of in-your-face lesbian sexuality and humor did not appear to shock anyone in the audience, which ranged in age from about 20 to 35, except for a pair of 60-somethings...
Exploding soap, toilet seats, wallets and cigarettes will surely shock unsuspecting users. If the situation calls for something less bombastic, how about a rare steak that moos, a screaming skull, a beer can that shocks the drinker, a shrieking ax, a hammer that makes the sound of breaking glass or a laughing mirror...