Word: shocks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Welcome banners bedecked Lusaka's postage-stamp airport, and 2,000 jubilant Africans pressed against its wire fence, their faces daubed festively with red ink, and frantically waving ceremonial palm fronds. Out of the Dakota transport stepped a shock-haired, anthracite-black man in a natty suit. To cheers of "Ken, our Zambia boy!" he unfurled a banner that proclaimed: REPUBLIC DAY, OCTOBER 24. Then he said: "I told you before we left we were going to collect a republic. We have brought it back...
...home run. Charlie Smith, who had driven in only five runs all year, drove in five that afternoon. Dick Smith, who had 13 hits to show for the whole season, got five in six trips to the plate. The Cubs, naturally, were in a state of complete shock. The catcher and first baseman collided chasing a foul ball. The rightfielder let a routine fly slip through his hands. One Met run scored on a passed ball, and another crossed the plate on a balk. Final score: Mets 19, Chicago...
When Mrs. Martin Wolf went to court in New Jersey to force her estranged husband to support her, she got a shock. Architect Wolf, she discovered, had already divorced her more than a year earlier in Alabama. Moreover, she had "agreed" to the action. Her signature was on the papers...
...critic, he throws bombs. His biggest blockbuster so far was Love and Death in the American Novel, in which he declared among other things that the best U.S. fiction, from Huckleberry Finn to Hemingway and Faulkner, has shared a theme of repressed homosexuality. But in just four years the shock waves from that book have been absorbed: it already appears on required reading lists at U.S. universities. So now Fiedler returns to the attack...
...natoriety of his unorthodox tone, had steeled many in the audience for an onslaught. As the first few notes burst from the bell of his oboe the remaining faces, already beginning to harden into that controlled boredom of the concert-goer's mask, registered something between discomfort and shock...