Word: shockly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sized pellets were not soluble mercury, which can severely damage the kidneys if ingested, but the metallic mercury of the kind used in thermometers ?potentially dangerous to very young children but not to adults. Nonetheless, the tampered oranges were a shock to Europe, especially after it became known that they were fruits of political terrorism. In a letter to the West German government, an extremist group calling itself the Arab Revolutionary Army-Palestine Command claimed it had doctored the fruit to disrupt Israel's economy...
...London auditorium leaves you flat; watching a grown man repeatedly slam a stuffed parrot against a desk to prove its deceased state ceases to be funny after a while. The same can be said for the movie's closing sequence, featuring the transvestite lumberjack number. It is the sheer shock value of these skits that made them so hilarious the first time around, and the novelty of the Monty Python perversity wears off very quickly...
...monkeys were shot through the head for a study of gunshot wounds. > Monkeys were operated on without anesthesia so doctors could study shock...
...almost fanatic: he is an aggressive nonsmoker. He has peppered Textron's office with NO SMOKING signs and banned tobacco at management meetings and aboard the company's aircraft. After eight years of Arthur Burns' perpetually puffing pipe, the change may come as something of a shock to Federal Reserve staffers accustomed to lighting up in front of the boss. Says a Providence banker who is close to Miller: "When he gets down to Washington, he will probably fumigate the building...
...voraciously read, finding in every word a novelty?something which opened new horizons before my eyes. It was thanks to an article contributed by an American psychologist to the Reader's Digest that I succeeded in getting over my troubles. The gist of that article was that a shock may occur, at any stage in a man's life, which might make him feel that all avenues in front of him are blocked, that life itself is a prison cell with a perpetually locked door...