Word: shocker
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...real shocker for the Crimson came when number two man Bill Morris was upset by Walt Oehrlein, brother of the number one Cadet player, in a four-game match. Oehrlein won the last two games by resounding 15-6 scores...
...grain prices by next July. By Mansholt's reckoning, the French would have to raise their grain prices by 8% to 15%, while the Germans would have to slash theirs by 11% to 15%. Last week the distressed Germans pleaded for time to weigh this shocker-Chancellor Ludwig Erhard will discuss it during visits this month to De Gaulle and President Kennedy-and showdown talks were postponed until...
...vast stadium is plunged into darkness. Suddenly its four corners ig nite in a frenzy of fireworks, then rockets burst overhead as an announcer shouts: "Attention, Belo Horizonte. Attention, Brazil. Attention, World. Cristo Total is on the Air!" What follows is a shocker of a religious pageant, sponsored by the Roman Catholic Church...
...despair over De Gaulle's action. The mechanism, nonetheless, is working very well. While 1963 has not been quite the year that it promised to be in early January, it has been far more successful than European businessmen dared to hope right after De Gaulle's shocker. Among Europe's top managers, there is a continuing confidence in economic growth, and a sense of expectation about where the Common Market is leading...
...from being the sordid shocker it might seem, Lulu contains some of the most lyrically tender passages in all of Berg's music. And Joan Carroll has an actress' gift for tactful understatement that keeps the sexy from becoming the squalid. As Joan Carroll says: "Lively is the word for Lulu...