Word: shocking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Thus there was widespread shock last week when it was alleged that Nachmann had embezzled millions of dollars from interest earned by reparations funds provided by the West German government for victims of Nazi persecution. Said Heinz Galinski, 75, Nachmann's successor as council chairman: "This is one of the darkest hours for the Jewish community since...
...invaders soon receive a rude shock, for they encounter one of nature's most incredible and complex creations: the human immune system. Inside the body, a trillion highly specialized cells, regulated by dozens of remarkable proteins and honed by hundreds of millions of years of evolution, launch an unending battle against the alien organisms. It is high-pitched biological warfare, orchestrated with such skill and precision that illness in the average human being is relatively rare...
...Magnate Leland Stanford's trotting-horse farm, the university is in the midst of a five-year centennial celebration that marks its rise from a modest regional school to the very top ranks of American higher education. The ascension of this brash Western upstart has come as both a shock and a challenge to such Ivy League powerhouses as 352-year-old Harvard and 242-year-old Princeton, where the notion of academic endeavor is firmly associated with rigorous winters and a stern Puritan work ethic. Reflecting the early contempt heaped on Palo Alto by the Eastern establishment, one 19th...
...tutor, Martha C. Abbruzzese '91, who had left Cambridge only half an hour earlier, returns his gaze in shock. There are no bars, no armed guards--at least not here in the Program Area at Deer Island prison. The inmate's grim face and worn clothing belie the classroom-like atmosphere. For a minute, murder almost seems possible...
...inmates are learning and so are the tutors. Most of the Harvard volunteers say they have had very little previous exposure to disadvantaged individuals, let alone to criminals. The prison "was a culture shock," says PBH tutor Amos Meron '89. "You're only gone for two hours, but you get totally out of the Harvard mindset...