Word: shockely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...slow progress of the U.S. initiative, Sadat began to think more and more about bold ways to break the stalemate. "The Arab-Israeli conflict," he told the U.S. Congressmen, "contains 70% psychological problems and 30% substance." What Sadat wanted was a move so dramatic that it would both shock and inspire the other parties involved to return to the path of negotiations. That could be only one thing, he eventually decided: speaking over the heads of the Israeli leaders to their people about peace, and doing so in front of their own parliament...
Elgin's final blow comes when Caroline runs off with an older man who serves as both a lover and a surrogate father to Caroline. Her own father had committed suicide when she was a young girl. Caroline's about-face is a total shock to Elgin who fantasizes about marrying her. In an attempt to console Elgin, Caroline tells him that she still cares for him and respects him. Her insistence that he has done nothing specifically wrong simply infuriates him more. After the requisite number of tears and drinking bouts, Elgin is forced to realize that...
...week's end the West German government received another embarrassing shock. Ingrid Schubert, 32, one of eleven jailed terrorists whose release had been demanded by Schleyer's kidnapers, was found dead in her Munich prison cell. She had apparently hanged herself. Schubert was the fourth terrorist to die in West German custody within the past month...
...spirit of the laws. A minority might endure such a system without protest, but South Africa's black majority did not. In 1960 came the bloody Sharpeville riot, in which 69 were killed as police fired on a black crowd demonstrating peaceably against the pass laws. It was a shock from which South Africans?black and white?never quite recovered...
After recovering from the shock of the Crimson goal, Yale began to pester the Harvard goal mouth again. They almost scored late in the half but Crimson goalie Kacandes foiled Eli left wing Erzwhiler with a fine above-the-head save...