Word: shocking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...become a popular writer, rich, famed; again he came to Granada on a holiday, put up at the still expensive Hotel Boabdil. One evening came a knock on the door. The same scene was repeated, only this time he himself was the elderly stranger; this time the shock killed...
...Warsaw, Mo., 80-year-old H. A. Beyer, after firing five bullets against his skull, died of shock...
...principal man on the island. But one day Pamphilus meets Chrysis' younger sister, Glycerium, who has been kept hidden in the house, and who has stolen out for a walk. They become lovers; when Glycerium is pregnant she tells her sister, who is ill, and the shock hastens Chrysis' death. Glycerium dies too, in childbirth; the queer household is sold into slavery; and nothing is left of Chrysis but the memory of a few young men, and the epitaph she once spoke for herself with no one to hear it but the sea: "Stranger, near this spot lies...
Coach Stubbs will undoubtedly use the same lineup which saw action against Dartmouth last Saturday. Cross, Garrison, and Stubbs will start, with Putnam. Wood, and Giddens ready to assume a shock troop role...
Pell and Mortimer were slow starting. They often have been before, so it was not a shock when the Englishmen took the first game by six points. Pell and Mortimer won the next, and then Kemp-Welch and Cambridge put on what seemed to be their last desperate spurt. They took the third game. Pell and Mortimer squared it with the fourth. The great moment had arrived ? the moment when Pell and Mortimer, according to their usual routine, should have carried the match away. Instead, Kemp-Welch and Cambridge lifted their pace another little bit and easily...