Word: shocked
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Usually around go sign up; after the first couple of lessons about a third drop out. Those who survive the first shock of culture generally stay with it. Chicago, which began with one class a year ago, now has 31 classes, will jump to 70 next year. Detroit, Indianapolis and Cleveland, with one class each now, plan to expand to 30 apiece...
England's Edward II used to shock his court by an inordinate fondness for bathing and for an ambitious Gascon knight named Piers Gaveston. But after his wife, Isabella of France, got fed up and had Edward murdered in 1327, the hero worship of the populace triumphed over the sour recollections of the aristocrats who had known him. Although he has never been canonized, Edward II became (like his forerunner, Edward "the Confessor," no kin) a royal "saint...
...16th Century had its bastards, and Borgia was one of them, with particularly illegitimate and realistic political ideas. Quite probably he picked up some from his father, Pope Alexander VI,* who was realistic enough to shock even Renaissance Italy. Borgia made a great impression on Europe while he lasted (he died at 31). He made a greater one still on Machiavelli, who spent a few months at his headquarters, as envoy from the Signory of Florence...
...that spring-cleaning had gone too far. When Laborite T. C. Skeffington-Lodge quoted statements that 40% of Britain's dewy, young (under 20) brides were pregnant on their wedding day, the House of Commons could only shake its collective fatherly head. Conservative Novelist Beverley Baxter doubted the shocking estimate, warned: "If this is published without considerable repudiation, it will shock the people of the Dominions...
...first days were fine. Until the novelty of their new surroundings palled, they could forget the shock of their first impressions, the unsmiling faces of the conquered...