Word: shocking
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...explain it," the forward said. "Sometimes you're always at the right spot at the right time. Sometimes the bounces go your way and sometimes they don't. This was one of the nights when they didI'm in shock right...
There was an invisible, impersonal mass killer on the loose. The knowledge rekindled, despite all the advances of modern medicine, humanity's ancient memories of epidemics beyond understanding or control. Even as the first waves of shock and fear began to spread, the search for the killer began in one of the most intensive efforts at medical sleuthing ever undertaken in the U.S. Now that the alert had been sounded, the case files quickly swelled. Within the week, more than 130 people, mostly men, had been stricken and hospitalized, and 25 had died. Each report fueled the nation's anxiety...
...plot of this anti-government, anti-regulation story centers on the workings of a mental institution in which patients receive ineffective, oppressive and downright ridiculous treatment. The primitive practices of electric shock therapy and lobotomy that are represented in the plot would never be practiced in modern-day psychiatry, but the story still holds a relevant spot as a work that exposes an authority as flawed and in need of rebellion...
...think of the towers as symbols of American success, rather in terms of the Sbarro’s that we ate at during a recent visit, or the concerts that we saw on the plaza, as the setting of individual memories. And I think it was not in shock or in anger that so many turned their heads downtown on marathon Sunday, but in remembrance. In grieving for lost buildings, we grieve for ourselves...
...millions and effectively destroy American society. As could loose nukes. According to Boris Yeltsin's former national security adviser, Russia cannot account for all its tactical nuclear weapons. Iraq and Iran are working on nuclear weapons of their own. On Sept. 11, it took just 19 conspirators to shock America. It would take just 19 more, each with a suitcase nuke, to destroy America...