Word: shocks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Many faithful Catholics will be greatly shocked if the Pope declares that the use of contraceptives is moral, but "this is the price the Church must pay for the silence it has maintained on the subject," the layman charged. "This silence is the fault of the Roman system, where everything comes from above and the people are silenced," he added. If the people had been discussing the problem for the last thirty years, such a declaration from the Pope would not come as such a shock, Novak explained...
...deteriorating might do no harm. And it is usually out of the icebox long enough to warm up a little before surgery. The body can handle the difference in temperature when the volume of the transfusion is not too large. But if a surgery patient needs several pints, the shock of the frigid flood fresh from the blood bank may kill...
...Victorian and quite contemporary observation points up the fact that much sexual humor in today's novels and plays is based on homosexuality, perversion and nonconsummation. In his nightclub act, Bruce used unscrubbed words that are common gutter patois for incest, sodomy and excrement. His words would hardly shock Army veterans, let alone Chaucer readers. But the two-judge majority found him guilty under a New York State law which forbids any "obscene, indecent, immoral or impure" public performances...
Princeton and Maryland have soccer kickers too, and Coach Duffy Daugherty at Michigan State has imported a barefoot kicker from Hawaii named Dick Kenney. Kenney kicks the ball off the end of-his bare toes. "I can tell if it's good by the way the shock goes up my leg," he says. He tied a Michigan State record by booting...
...Pumpkin Eater of the nursery thyme put his wife in a pumpkin shell, and there he kept her very well. Giving a wry contemporary twist to Mother Goose, Penelope Mortimer's vivid first-person novel suggests that the poor creature then swiftly developed shell shock. In this slow, strong, incisive film version of the book, the ironing out of a well-kept wife's unkempt psyche is portrayed with harrowing perception by Anne Bancroft...