Word: shocks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...avowed far-leftist to be elected President in Latin America. In Curicó, Allende's candidate for Congress won with 39% of the vote. Durán's man got only 31%, and the Christian Democrat came on strong with 27%. Indicative or not, the results sent shock waves through the Democratic Front, prompted Duran's resignation, and led to speculation that a new non-Communist coalition may be formed, with able, eloquent Christian Democrat Frei at its head...
Coast-to-Coast Shock. The reaction was immediate. In a speech to the American College of Trial Lawyers in Miami Beach, A.C.T.L. President Whitney North Seymour said that Belli's conduct "shocked all of us." Belli's denunciation of the judge and jury on TV, said Seymour, "cannot be allowed to pass by those responsible for maintaining the image of the American lawyer at home and abroad...
Texans, predictably, mounted a strenuous counterattack. Governor John Connally called Belli's tirade against Dallas "reprehensible." Attorney General Waggoner Carr told University of Texas law students that Belli's behavior "should shock all of our bar members from coast to coast...
Barbed Beads. Thus Joseph Goodman became the first American known to have died from man-of-war stings. Though he had had coronary artery disease, there was no sign that he had suddenly had a heart attack. Dr. Valone thinks that Goodman died of shock brought on by the man-of-war's poison...
Most victims step on the tentacles of a dying man-of-war washed up on the beach, and they get what feels like a scorpion sting. Several tentacles drawn across the legs feel like a lashing with red-hot wires, and may throw a healthy adult into shock by suddenly dropping his blood pressure. The extreme pain may last an hour, and dull pain for a couple of hours more. The welts persist for up to three months...