Word: shockingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Shock Therapy...
...business, but by night he worked the phones, and his staff members spun round the clock trying to keep Democratic lawmakers in line. On Tuesday, House Democratic leaders met with White House aides Larry Stein, John Podesta and Erskine Bowles, all of whom appeared to participants to be "in shock." All they could do was to keep saying they were sorry, complained one Democratic member, and reiterate that they understood what House Democrats were feeling. It was contrition by proxy. For much of the week there was no strategy, no guidance and no evidence that the President would drop...
There is a peculiar American cultural convention that "old news is no news," meaning that if any story, no matter how appalling, has seen some light of day a few weeks or months earlier, it is ipso facto drained of moral and political valence. Sure enough, despite the initial shock waves set off by the Starr report, public support for Clinton has remained steady. Two-thirds of Americans still don't want him to resign or be impeached. In fact, two-thirds approve of the job he's doing as President...
...even he is doubtful about fitting inacademically at Harvard, a huge change from thetiny Catholic high school back home. Theadjustment to college is tricky to begin with, butfor Lopez, the son of working-class Cubanimmigrants, Harvard poses a special culture shock...
...flamboyant "Flojo" sent shock waves through the sports world in 1988 when she shattered two of its most coveted records. At the U.S. Olympic trials in Indianapolis, she ran the 100 meters in 10.49 seconds...