Word: shocks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were born Bohemians," Gertrude wrote about Leo and herself. Accordingly, they moved into a house and proceeded to shock the southern neighbours with their wild western ways. On the walls were Japanese prints, on their furniture, footmarks. The brother and sister took pleasure in looking "ratty," Gertrude uncorseted and besandalled. In the laboratory she was sloppy, always stained and in a muddle...
Tripp has been in business for himself only since 1951. Son of a civil engineer, blond, shock-haired Bill Tripp is a lifelong Long Islander, has sailed everything from the family Star boat to ocean racers and frostbite dinghies, put in a twelve-year apprenticeship with Designers Rhodes and Stephens. As with all unknowns in the cliquish yacht business, Tripp at first found the going tough. In 1955 he finally got a chance to design an ocean racer, the yawl Katingo. The boat promptly won the American Yacht Club cruise two years in succession...
...Treasury offered $9.1 billion in new securities last week to private holders of maturing debt and got a shock. It had hoped to persuade most of the holders of maturing issues, bearing 1⅞% and 2½% interest rates, to trade them in for new Government securities paying 3¾% and 4%. Instead, owners of more than 20% of the old issues demanded to be paid off in cash, the biggest such demand in six months. To help make up the difference, the Treasury must go to the public this week with a $1.5 billion emergency issue...
...FRAUD AND DECEIT" is charged by SEC against Reynolds & Co., one of biggest brokerage houses. Chief charge in hearings opening this week: a few Reynolds employees in California touted cheap mining stocks that later slumped. Reynolds expresses "surprise and shock" at case; the men under fire are no longer with firm...
...camp, and pretty soon a pretty Swiss girl (Maria Schell), survivor of a stagecoach stickup, is brought in for treatment. He has no trouble healing her body-she is suffering from exposure, concussion, sun blindness. So then he sets out to heal her mind-she is suffering from the shock of seeing her father murdered by the bandits. As might be expected, the hero's methods of psychotherapy are suggested more by a sense of what the public wants to see than by any notion of what the doctor should order. He simply marches the heroine...