Word: shocks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rainbow troutlets, less than an inch long, were plopped into the classroom. With the current turned off, they swam about at random, brushing the wires and the tin fish. But when Kanayama switched on the current, they darted all over the tank, desperate to avoid the harmless but painful shock. "I never felt guilty for doing this," says Kanayama fondly. "It was all for their own good...
...Lawrence will play on the huge West Point rink, where second-seeded Army is just about invincible. The choice of the Larries, only 3-7-1 this season, over both strong-finishing Northeastern and Ivy champion Dartmouth, came as a shock to many Bostonians...
...them," Mao said. He denounced the treaty as a "swindle concluded behind our backs." Using barnyard idiom, he raged that Russia and the U.S. should not be allowed to defecate "on our heads." When his prim young interpreter hesitated in translation, Mao ordered: "Go ahead, say it. That might shock you, but it's the truth...
...touches of great eloquence, his flashes of brilliant wit, he simply has nothing new to say, and what he says over and over again does not much need saying. As with most of Beckett's metaphors for the human condition, How It Is begins as a small shock and ends as a small bore...
...corpulence" that he had to have a semicircular hole cut in the table to accommodate him at meals. "A fool," the doctor used to say to Anna, "is a man who never tried an experiment." Erasmus tried them all the time, and occasionally they worked. He prescribed electric shock for jaundice and scarlet fever, purges for the gout, blood transfusions for cases of consumption. His "Commonplace Book" is full of case histories of experiments that failed: a dropsical woman who apparently vomited and died after receiving four doses of "decoction of foxglove"; his own infant daughter who died after Erasmus...