Word: shocks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...turned the final corner in the search for a style of his own. One night he went to a soccer game played under lights. There, the hurly-burly of the action, its colliding figures, its synergetic, bright-colored jerseys convinced him that his search for visual shock must be anchored in figurative art. In a series of tiny oils, he slammed anatomies together like a deck of badly shuffled playing cards...
...American hands-off policy might stand a chance given a strong leader in either country who could absorb the political shock of a compromise. However Ayub, already losing ground on the Kashmir issue, has had his political standing undermined by the American rebuffs. Shastri occupies the vacuum left by Nehru and thus enjoys only mild support with elections fifteen months away. In fact, peace-loving Shastri has been forced by his domestic insecurity to make the most belligerent speeches heard this year outside Peking...
White people in cars blundered up the road, stared in shock at the column, and wheeled their automobiles around to get away...
...first shock of disaster, it was feared that as many as 2,000 might have perished. Refugee camps were hurriedly set up, and President Diosdado Macapagal left his own birthday party to supervise rescue operations. How many victims Taal had claimed this time might not be known for months, if ever. In the first three days, 25 bodies were found...
...shaken from its groove, that amplifiers had to be placed far away from everything because they generated so much heat, and that speakers had to be behemoths to produce a faithful bass. Recent technological developments have changed all that. Good record changers have so many springs and shock absorbers that they are virtually unaffected by vibration. By using transistors instead of tubes, manufacturers can cram the same amount of equipment into half the space and eliminate the heat problem altogether. Lastly, the music makers have now come up with small speakers that can reproduce the Big Sound...