Word: shocker
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that weren't bad enough for Harvard's cause, the Terriers were the recipients of another shocker nine minutes later, sending them off to what seemed an insurmountable 5-3 bulge...
...member of the city's board of supervisors-agreed hat the overriding issue of the campaign was not San Francisco's woes but New York City's. "The day of the giveaway is over," said Moscone, 46. Said the conservative Barbagelata, 56: "New York was the shocker that woke up the silent majority in this city." With a 3-to-l edge in Democratic registration, Moscone should have been a shoo-in. Thanks to New York...
...weeks ago, Louis Harris, one of the men who read the national palm, gave a speech that would have been a shocker if any of the "Phogbounds" had been listening. "The voices from the top today are by and large not the voices from below," he said. The findings in his polls, he continued, showed the people sick to death of overblown and phony talk. They viewed politics as "sadly out of date...
...more triumph. If Curtain is not quite the revolutionary mystery that The Murder of Roger Ackroyd was in 1926, it is a major tour de force. Once again Christie has twisted the classic form in which she writes, and has come up with something new. Curtain is a shocker. It will cause intense, benign controversy and become an enormous bestseller. It is to be hoped that Queen Elizabeth has more ribbons in her closet to decorate this enduring and lonely symbol of British vitality...
...forces approached an all-out rout. Obviously, U.S. intelligence about Thieu and his powers had been grievously faulty. First, the former imperial capital of Hue fell to the Communists; then so did five more provinces, bringing the total under their control to 13 (out of 44). But the real shocker was the swiftness of the fall of Danang, South Viet Nam's second largest city and the onetime center of U.S. Marine operations in Viet Nam. The weekend announcement by Saigon officials that the city had been overrun by the Communists marked the South's greatest single defeat...