Word: shocks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Honeybees, for all their storied sweetness, are second to rattlesnakes as a menace to life in the U.S., the University of Pittsburgh's Dr. Henry M. Parrish reported last week. He traced 55 deaths in five years to rattlesnake bites, and 52 to allergic or anaphylactic (shock) reactions in sensitized subjects stung by bees. Hornets, wasps and yellow jackets (TIME. Aug. 19. 1957) accounted for 30 other deaths. In the same period all venomous snakes caused 71 deaths...
...person who had been hanging around the show for days, the only real surprise was the stand-by's shock at his discovery. "Every single one of us was briefed beforehand," one Dotto winner told TIME last week. "But it was all done so subtly, you could never say positively that you'd been given any specific answer. One day I finally went up to one of the producers and said: 'How on earth can you get away with it?' He looked me right in the eye and said, 'I don't know what...
...other with magnetic tape). By fall of 1959, when the M.I.T. committee and the National Science Foundation hope to have trained 750 more teachers, the revolution in physics teaching will be accepted matter-of-factly by some 50,000 high school students. But the chain-reaction's shock wave will continue spreading. Chief shock absorbers: the nation's colleges, many of which teach a brand of physics as outmoded as the one now being replaced in the high schools...
During his travels, he was a sort of premature Cook's tourist in his friar's habit who noted the price of everything, even to the fees he got for every Mass he said. Author Gage's intention was to shock his English Puritan public with the riches and avariciousness of the Roman church in the New World; today's reader might feel that he is being conducted by an accountant among the wonders of a clash of faiths and civilizations...
...courage to the market, attracted buyers back into bonds. But the Fed's purchases were limited to buying $1 billion of one-year certificates to aid the Treasury's July refinancing operation. As the effect of this wore off and hopes for more substantial assistance faded, the shock of disappointment sent bonds down some more. Last week, in raising margin requirements on stocks, the Fed signaled possible new moves to tighten credit-and bond prices fell again...