Word: shocks
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Oscar Wilde once noted that the way to get into the best society is to amuse or shock. That theory may have worked in Victorian London, particularly for witty, shocking Oscar Wilde. But it never went over in New York. Afraid of jeopardizing their own social security, New York's finest followed the example of the Boston Brahmins, clung to the names in the Social Register and the rules in Emily Post as loyally as if they had made them up themselves−which mostly they had. In recent years, however, New York has gone Wilde, and the newest...
...language of Reetchie's monologues is vivid--"Brains boiling bubbling in a chalky skull"; "while the sun eats away my eyelids." But much of it is the musing of someone who is still in a state of shock. Only the condition, brutally emphasized, comes through. Reetchie does not. Even the name is obscure; only its sound is clear...
...schooled in scandal, Brazilian investors have pulled out of the parallel market in great numbers, resumed investing heavily in stocks. The Big Bust. The biggest scandal of the parallel market involved the Brazilian subsidiary of Germany's huge Mannesmann steel company, which two months ago, to the shock of stockholders, repudiated more than $14 million worth of outstanding notes, claiming that two former directors had issued them without authorization. An gry investors took the company to court, and a legal bankruptcy action is under way. The government has placed responsibility for the notes squarely on Mannesmann, arrested...
...before a statue of the Virgin Mary, when she saw the numerals 1960 form above a vision of the White House. Then a sinister cloud oozed out from the numbers, "dripped down like chocolate frosting on a cake," and spattered a ghostly, blue-eyed young man who had a shock of brown hair. Putting cake and cloud together, she told an interviewer from Parade magazine in 1956 that "a blue-eyed Democratic President elected in 1960 will be assassinated...
Mariner also looked for two near-Earth phenomena. It failed to find any evidence of the giant tail of Earth's magnetic field that is supposed to stretch thousands of miles out into space. In another experiment, Mariner measured the shock wave caused by solar pressure against Earth's magnetic field. The wave turned up three times at distances of 138,000 to 154,000 miles from Earth. This indicated, the scientists concluded, that the magnetic field around Earth is constantly expanding and contracting...