Word: shocking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...friend dressed in one of those yuppie outfits. She's just had an interview. Interview, I yell, realizing that although summer is more than two months away, most people already have their fight schedules from Cambridge arranged. After the shock, I begin to envy them...
Federal drug czar William Bennett is on the brink of declaring Washington the nation's first "high-intensity drug-trafficking area," making the city a "shock-treatment" test case in the war on drugs. He will soon announce a federal-local strike force that will try to close down the district's nearly 100 open-air drug markets. Bennett's staff is also toying with the possibility of converting abandoned military buildings into makeshift jails for drug pushers. Since 1986, Washington police have arrested almost 40,000 suspects in drug cases, but the District has long since...
Fringe politics, of either the left or the right, has rarely counted for much in staid and cautious postwar West Germany. But last week, to the shock of the country's political establishment, that dictum was punctured in both directions. In two major cities, West Berlin and Frankfurt, left-wing alliances of Social Democrats and environmental-activist Greens became majority factions. Both cities have also seen a resurgence of ultra-right parties: anti-immigrant Republicans in West Berlin and National Democrats in Frankfurt. The National Democrats, once a refuge of unreconstructed Nazis, gained 6.6% of the vote and representation...
...most who were randomed into the Quad in earlier years, its new-found popularity arrives as a "shock," said Mitevski. "It reflects a change not inherently but in the way people perceive the Quad...
Simmons Professor of History Floyd B. Barbour said the activity, which first took place at the school three years ago, was intended to shock people into greater awareness of apartheid...