Word: shockers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...third. Rahal has a very strong arm to go along with his speed. George Clarke, a football player who has also started for the Yardlings, will be at first, with hockey team goalie Carl Hathaway at second. Bob Leary will play short Frank White, another football player, Jerry Shocker, and Frank Scanion will be in the outfield...
Hathaway, 2b; White, cf; Ingoldsby, c; Shepherd, p; Rahal, 3b; Clarke, lb; Leary, ss; Shocker, lf; Scanion...
Nearly 126 years ago, Bolívar tried to get Colombians to accept the new constitution he had written for the Republic of Bolivia. As a republican charter, it was a shocker; among other things, it called for a powerful President elected for life, drastic limitation of voting rights, and a three-chamber Congress, including a strong Chamber of Censors-also chosen for life. Colombians rejected the Liberator's plan, went along instead with the local-rights doctrines of Bolívar's estranged lieutenant, Francisco de Paula Santander, father of Colombia's Liberal Party...
Awakening may seem a shocker, especially to Catholics, but it is no dirty-minded, adolescent scrawl. Rossi, a precocious youngster who was himself kicked out of a Jesuit school at 14, sometimes makes hero Denis sound and feel older than his years. Occasionally both author and hero show their immaturity in awkward, self-conscious yammerings about life. But as a picture of an adolescent agonizingly in love, or even as a simple love story, Awakening is done with enough skill and taste to establish Author Rossi as the Flaubert of teenagers...
...long career Sculptor Jacob Epstein, 71, has occasionally tried his hand at religious subjects. To the orthodox, the results have usually seemed artistically outrageous, if not downright blasphemous. Epstein's phallephoric Adam was denounced as pornography; his Jacob and the Angel, billed as "the world's greatest shocker," went on tour in an artistic peepshow; G. K. Chesterton took one look at his square, squat Ecce Homo, then thundered at it as "one of the greatest insults to religion I've ever seen...