Word: shocks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...revelers in the Ginza cocktail lounge looked like any other gathering of Japanese junior executives: a bit soft around the middle, a bit busky-cheeked from golf and gin, affluent and amiable. The song they were singing sent a charge of shock through the bar: "Monday and Monday, Tuesday, Wed nesday, Thursday, Friday and Friday.". It was a battle song of the Japanese Imperial Navy, extolling daily dedication to the glory of Nippon. As the singing died away, the men spontaneously turned to reminiscences of Rabaul and Savo Island, Bataan and Okinawa. "Wasn't it great," said one, "those...
...strangely tacked a happy ending onto the tragedy, as Sandra overcomes her illicit feelings and returns to her husband. After the long emotional buildup, one feels robbed of the catharsis. Perhaps Visconti was attempting to pour new life into an old form by providing a different kind of shock at the resolution...
...cover was a great shock and disappointment to me. It seems a pity that such a great person as the Pope should be pictured as a cracked piece of clay...
...greatest boons for patients with certain types of heart disease was the discovery that a simple, direct-current electric shock can restore a twitching ("fibrillating") heart to a normal pumping beat (TIME, Nov. 30, 1962). The most notable drawback is that this has usually required the preliminary use of general anesthesia, which is dangerous for heart patients. Now, in the New England Journal of Medicine, two George Washington University doctors report that a simpler and safer substitute for general anesthesia is readily available...
...world today. Psychiatric patients take it by swallowing tablets, but the G.W. doctors recommend giving it by intravenous injection to patients with heartbeat abnormalities. As a result, they say, the patients are sedated gently but so deeply that they wake up with no memory of the jolting shock, and with heartbeats restored to normal...