Word: shockely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...came as a shock. After all, I hadn't been married since the 1940s." Thus did Actress Gloria Swanson, 76, describe her marriage proposal from Writer William Dufty, 60. Married five times (among her husbands: Actor Wallace Beery), she first met Dufty more than a decade ago when he was an assistant editor on the New York Post. "He looked like a Buddha, all blubber," she says. Swanson, a natural-food fanatic, helped prod Dufty off sweets and onto a macrobiotic diet-and last week married him in Manhattan. "He's a convert of mine," boasted Gloria...
These three players, however, did not shock the Tigers by themselves, for, as Barnaby stated, "It was a colossal team effort, one of the best that I've ever seen." It was an effort which also featured victories by Mark Panarese (#6), Scott Mead (#8) Ted Humphreyville (#9), Ken Ehrlich (in an exhibition match at #10), and three near misses...
...Crimson was now nursing a 17-16 lead when Smith tussled with a shock of sinew named Steve Glasgow. "Last year he had a lot of baby fat on him," Smith said as his voice trailed away ominously, but he proved up to the occasion, clawing to a 3-1 win over Glasgow...
...shock. Say it ain't so, Dorothy. Was this the same Dorothy Hamill I had known and had seen that night? My initial impression of her was thus confirmed--she was being totally manipulated by parents who loved the attention it brought them...
...extent that Ford ever registers shock over anything on his benign face, he did when O'Neill told him there were 700,000 children below the poverty line who could not qualify for school lunches. Yet Lynn's kids at Bethesda's high-income Walt Whitman High School got a 23? subsidy for each meal at school. Ford ordered his proposal to cut aid for those who can pay and target it for the destitute...