Word: shockly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Shock Treatment. His first four weeks were an ordeal of fire. To begin with, Richard Nixon's visit, the first by an American President, was a security nightmare. Israeli troops withdrew from the Golan Heights. Palestinian guerrillas carried out a series of suicide attacks on Israeli border communities. Delicate talks began with the U.S. on new arms purchases. In July Rabin had to fend off an attempt by Israeli annexationists, goaded by right-wing parties, to settle in the West Bank. That time he used persuasion, pointing out that Israel's occupation of the West Bank, in theory...
...over the National Religious Party -without compromising any of the principles of the government platform that the Religious Party had rejected last spring. This gave Rabin a somewhat more comfortable margin of eight seats in the Knesset and strengthened him enough to announce the stern measures of the economic "shock treatment" by which he hopes to resuscitate the Israeli economy (TIME, Nov. 25). Whether it also strengthened him sufficiently to be able to make any significant concessions to the Arabs remains to be seen...
...Shock Waves. The first warning of the impending tragedy came at 8:11 p.m., when an Irish-accented male voice telephoned the Birmingham Post: "There is a bomb planted at the rotunda [a 17-story office block]; there is a bomb planted in New Street in the tax office." The warning was instantly passed on to the police, and patrol cars raced to the area. A quick check at the tax office revealed nothing. Moments later, at 8:20 p.m., a vicious explosion ripped through the Mulberry Bush, a pub beneath the rotunda that was jammed mostly with young people...
...minutes later, a second bomb blast transformed the nearby Tavern in the Town into an even grislier scene. The shock waves of the explosion rebounded between the walls of the underground pub, turning flying debris into deadly missiles. Water poured onto the floor and the ceiling fell, as frantic survivors stumbled toward the exit over the bodies of the dead and maimed. Susan Edkin, 18, and her fiance were celebrating their engagement. "People were shouting and screaming," she said later. "I remember there was a man lying on the floor who couldn't see because his eyes had gone...
...code of blind loyalty, he, his wife and daughter were brutally gunned to death in their beds on New Year's morning 1970 -on the orders, it later came out, of Tony Boyle, who was eventually convicted of murder and is now in prison. The murders sent shock waves of indignation across the coal fields. Shortly afterward, Miller, who had risen to prominence in West Virginia as president of the insurgent Black Lung Association, was chosen at a meeting of anti-Boyle factions to succeed Yablonski and lead the reform movement...