Word: shocks
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Strawberries for Cash. In appearance and manner, Wallace was the prototypical Midwesterner. From the rebellious shock of hair to the scuffed shoes, he looked like the perennial farm boy. Yet behind the craggy, Scotch-Irish face and diffident blue eyes lurked a bewildering blend of intellectual acumen and messianic wrongheadedness...
Although the 35-year-old Catholic Worker has no official connection with the church, its members generally adhere to the rules and teaching of the faith; many attend Mass and receive Communion daily. Thus, after LaPorte's death, a spokesman for the movement expressed "shock, perplexity and grief," and publicly urged other protesters "to employ other means in expressing their commitment...
...Chicago's Urban Training Center for Christian Mission. Shortly after they enroll, they take "the plunge." They are sent out with just $8, to live and work for four days in the slums surrounding the center's headquarters on Ashland Avenue. "It's sort of shock treatment," explains the center's director, Episcopal Father James P. Morton. "It puts them in situations where they're forced to listen instead of spouting, as they're used to doing. Scales fall from their eyes...
First Voice. In the meantime, strange things had been happening in Salisbury. Into office as territorial Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia came Reginald Stephen Garfield Todd, a strapping, handsome ex-missionary. To the shock of his own United Party, he began to speak softly to the Africans. He managed to ram through a bill giving Southern Rhodesian blacks their first tiny voice in the territory's government-a separate ballot under which they could elect five of the 35 members of parliament. It was not much, but to the settlers it seemed a step toward their worst fear: that...
...from sugar syrups, found in crystallizing tanks of sugar refineries." Thus described, dextran hardly sounds like anything for a doctor to prescribe. For years, however, it has been used as a readily available substitute for blood plasma to boost the volume of fluid in patients who are going into shock from loss of blood. Now a University of Maryland surgeon has reported that, quite by chance, he discovered a remarkable new use for the drug extracted from a slime: to reduce abnormally high cholesterol levels in the blood...