Word: shockely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...health was never mentioned in the conclave. One historian wondered if the Cardinals might not be submerged in guilt over the affliction of the man they put in office. Did the pressures of the job exact a sudden toll, as Cardinals Konig and Suenens suggested in the first shock of the news...
With the Fenway crowd at first in shock, and then comatose, the visitors upped the lead to 5-2 against reliever Bob Stanley on Thurman Munson's RBI double and Reggie Jackson's solo homer...
Woolway ultimately enjoyed the relaxing atmosphere around Harvard freshman football and found it a worthwile prerequisite for the varsity but notes, "My first game here I was almost disappointed in the football. I knew it was going to be low key, but it was a shock considering what I was used...
...finding came as no great surprise, its source was a considerable shock. Coleman was the man whose 1966 report, Equality of Educational Opportunity, had served as the main academic proof of the values of desegregation. Yet here he was, questioning the usefulness of busing. Coleman, of course, was merely asking whether, in the long run, "forced busing might not defeat the purpose of increasing overall contact among races hi schools...
Though California is plagued by frequent temblors, it has suffered only two major earthquakes in recorded history: the fabled and destructive San Francisco quake of 1906 and an even bigger shock in 1857, which rocked the then sparsely populated southern and central parts of the state. Now that California is the nation's most populous state, it could suffer incalculable damage and thousands of deaths in a major quake. Such a quake will almost certainly happen and, says a young California scientist, probably within the next half-century...