Word: shocks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...those who though they were well rid of Strauss when he resigned as AEC head in June, his latest promotion comes as an unpleasant shock. There is no reason to honor the man whose treatment of Oppenheimer was not exactly gallant, and who has clouded the facts about atmospheric pollution and nuclear test explosions. In giving him this new position, President Eisenhower has done the country a considerable disservice, one which only the Senate can remedy...
From alumni, moreover, came letters protesting the "buffoonery" of the cheerleaders' gymnastic stunts and expressing shock that the figure of John Harvard should be treated as an object of ridicule...
...China itself admitted a little dissension. In the province of Liaoning, reported the People's Daily, "shock teams" and "treasure-digging teams" who collect scrap iron-and are supposed to turn in their own no-longer-needed kitchenware-"took away steel rods on public buildings, underground drainpipes and iron railings, and handed them over to the authorities as scrap iron." In Honan, it added, peasants complain bitterly about the common messhalls, which prevent them from having friends at home for dinner. In Hopei they worry about having no kitchens of their own or a brick oven to sleep...
What trapped the men was a "bump," a hazard peculiar to Nova Scotia soft coal mines, in which excavated seams compress with near-explosive force, sending up clouds of gas. Coming at 8:05 p.m., the rumbling shock tumbled dishes all over town. At the colliery, the miners' wives looked at the tagboard and waited. Only a few sobbed. Within an hour volunteer rescuers arrived, each toting 45 Ibs. of special oxygen equipment, and started down the 13,800-ft. shaft. Eighty-one survivors were brought up, their faces blank with shock. But the faces of the others were...
...wanted to meet the challenge of fielding a good team under the Ivy League rules. With this settled, the Yovicsin family took up residence in Framingham, and Yovicsin himself undertook the task of transforming Harvard football. The record of that transformation has been evident all fall. After an initial shock when for various personal reasons some key players left the squad, his team has enjoyed playing for him. He asks only that each player work his hardest, and he in turn works hard for them. Players on the junior varsity were given the opportunity this fall to run regular varsity...