Word: shock
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...Connor's resignation came as a surprise but not a shock. There had been speculation for weeks that she might step down to spend more time with her husband John, who she has told friends is suffering from Alzheimer's disease. Once she announced her decision, activist groups who had been focused on the world-after-Rehnquist regeared for a higher-stakes battle over her crucial seat. Those groups have been readying their cell phones and BlackBerrys for years. In an atmosphere of already heightened political polarization, when the U.S. is divided over an increasingly unpopular...
...It’s not so much what she says, but how she says it,” Banfield explains. “It’s the way she gets embarrassed when she wins an award, or the way her personal accomplishments shock even...
...with the saddest of hearts that I write at this time, three days after the death of a truly beloved Eliot student, Paul F. Gilligan III ’05. His passing has come as the most tremendous shock, and it is almost impossible to comprehend that he is no longer with us, that his smile and quiet voice, his generous spirit, and his outstanding athleticism, will no longer grace the Dining Hall at Eliot or the dock at the Weld Boat House...
...erstwhile mayor of Tehran, would be modern and strong (meaning nuclear powered) and rich, with prosperity to be shared among all classes, not just the lite. Still, the streets of Tehran's better-off northern districts were like a ghost town full of zombies, with residents in shock over the accession of a little-known revolutionary and Islamic zealot. "We are doomed," said Nasser Soroudi, 33, a salesman at a photo shop. He, like many of his countrymen, believes that the new President will turn their country into "Taliban-land...
...University of Southern California in the mid-1980s, the CEO of China's third largest oil company remembers seeing Union 76 signs plastered all along America's Left Coast--emblems of California's car-crazed lifestyle. For Fu Chengyu, then a poor student from northern China, culture shock doesn't even begin to describe it. Try future shock. "Back then," he says, "China seemed like it was 100 years behind the United States...