Word: shocks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...news just suddenly broke out as a shock. The people were scared and angry, saying "Why would any person want to take the lives of the three boys...
Kittens & Rabbits. Salinger's showing came as a bit of a shock to those who remembered him as a White House press secretary who could always be counted on to enliven dull news days in the Kennedy years. Those were the days when Pierre delivered solemn pronouncements on little Caroline's Tom Kitten, or offered brisk communiqués about a trumpet-playing rabbit, or exhibited a grand disdain for the 50-mile hikes so highly recommended by the Kennedys. Considering his background, it is hard for many Californians to remember that Pierre is now a genuine...
...well-fitting suits; the women, mostly hatless and coifed for the occasion, were in simple knits or tweeds, just the thing for the suburbs-even an appearance in court. These were the parents whose arrest for violation of a Connecticut statute against serving liquor to minors has sent a shock wave of there-but-for-the-grace-of-God-go-I across the country (TIME...
...visitor to Berlin inevitably walks along the road to the Brandenburg gate, now lined with rolls of barbed wire and heavily guarded. The old Brandenburg gate stands in its grandeur as a reminder of the transience of power over this great city. The shock and revulsion of seeing its impaired beauty, half hidden by the wall, is tempered by the remembrance of the history it has witnessed. The chariot now astride the gate is the same one which was once borne triumphantly into Paris by Napoleon...
...American elections have not fallen in the same year since 1924. Then, most voters in both countries supported what they considered the safest party; Calvin Coolidge was returned to the White House and Stanley Baldwin to 10 Downing Street. Today, in a time of general prosperity and after the shock of the assassination of an American President, the candidates who appear safest will again probably win. And while there is no mystery about the identity of the safe candidate in this country, it is difficult to say just who he is in the United Kingdom, before the election this Thursday...