Word: shocker
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that makes no differences; as a shocker, the word is dying. I haven't yet run across it in the Ladies' Home Journal, but then I don't read that magazine every month either. We may as well face reality. "Fuck," like "Agnew," is becoming a household word...
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Yale's victory was a shocker since Harvard had trounced the Elis, 7-2, a week before. While there was nothing at stake in the game, it was the Crimson's only loss of the season to a markedly inferior team...
...outstanding group of sophomores which includes sabreman Larry Cetrulo and foil Tom Keller, the fencing team has rolled up five straight victories this year, including a shocker over strong City College of New York 17-10 on December 14. Columbia, probably the strongest team in the Ivy League, defeated C.C.N.Y. by a 15-12 margin two weeks ago. Comparative scores are always tricky, especially in fencing, but they do indicate here that for the first time in years Harvard has a good shot at dethroning Columbia as the Ivy fencing champion...
PETER BOGDANOVICH'S Targets, a low-budget oddity of considerable merit, snuck into Boston last week on the bottom half of an exploitation bill at the Center. Paramount, the distributor, doesn't know how to handle the film--a realistic shocker about an All-American boy-turned-sniper on the rampage--and despite good reviews and box office on its initial theatrical engagements, they stuck a plea for gun control arbitrarily before the credits, then decided not to open the film at all. In the depths of his soul, film critic Bogdanovich probably doesn't care. After all, many films...