Word: shocks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Suffering from shock and bruised ribs, the Premier was moved from Mrs. Bailey's cottage to a private room on the third floor of London Clinic. It was there that Adnan Menderes, in pajamas and dressing gown, received British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and Greek Premier Constantine Karamanlis three days after the crash. Somebody brought them one of the hospital's fountain pens. And in that most undiplomatic of settings, the three men signed the agreement that ended the four-year dispute over Cyprus and brought the island the promise of independence for the first time since...
...difference between life and death. The human body cannot survive unless at least one kidney is doing its job of filtering the body's waste products from the blood so that they can be voided in the urine. A variety of things can cause an abrupt kidney shutdown: shock with heavy blood loss (after surgery or an accident), some severe infections, mismatched transfusions, and many poisons. Of these, carbon tetrachloride attacks the kidneys directly; most are general poisons (often, overdoses of common drugs such as barbiturates and even aspirin) which the overloaded natural kidneys cannot void fast enough...
MOSCOW, Feb. 24--Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev caustically attacked Western foreign policies on Germany today in a Kremlin speech. British sources said visiting Prime Minister Harold Macmillan reacted wth some shock when he heard of Khrushchev's remarks...
Gleaming Weapon. Dulles was still very much alive and within telephone reach of both the State Department and the White House, but the sense of shock grew, nonetheless, out of the conviction that the free world could ill afford even the temporary loss of a unique cold-war leadership. A boy who had grown up dreaming of being not President but Secretary of State, a man who had trained for the job during 50 years of corporation law and international diplomacy, Dulles translated his respect for Theodore Roosevelt's lessons about peace-by-power and Woodrow Wilson...
Amid the general shock, some novices made matters worse by loud self-justification (in itself an unZen act). Wailed one: "When we sit long hours in meditation, the blood tends to collect around our loins. It's natural for us to seek outlets." That was no surprise to some cynical Japanese, who say that novice Zen priests often slip anchor at night after the temple supervisor goes home. Many steer straight for the local brothel, where the madam courteously bundles them inside without obtrusive haggling at the door. Others hold frequent cookouts near the temple, wolfing down undercover banquets...