Word: shocks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Program, again-and still-struggling with the perennially sagging Soviet economy. Soviet Russia is always ready to create heroes, as in the case of the cosmonauts, and always ready to forget them-if not physically remove them from their tombs. One of TIME'S Russia covers presented famed Shock Worker Alexis Stakhanov (Dec. 16, 1935) who was then being celebrated as a Hero of Labor. "Pass the champagne," the story quoted him, "for our last drink." He has long since disappeared from the Soviet scene, and the word Stakhanovism is no longer used to connote extra effort...
Ester's farewell. Wholly indifferent, Anna turns toward the open window, sensating, reviving her spirits with the shock of rain and wind against her flesh. The boy continues reading, still driven by his own need to know all that is knowable...
...Shock gave way to applause. It was monumental, inevitable, bitter, honest, necessary and ultimately wholesome. ALLAN LAKE RICE Collegeville...
...pailful. Several hundred dairies are now delivering milk in five, six-or ten-quart containers, consisting of a cardboard box shaped to fit easily into the refrigerator; inside is a plastic bag with a dispensing nozzle. Advantages: the milk, protected from exposure to air and from the "heat shock" caused by removal from the refrigerator, lasts much longer, takes up less room-and is delivered...
...force of several G's tore at his body as he hit the hollow where Australian Ross Milne lost control in practice and hurtled to his death. Next came a treacherous se ries of bumps: unlike more timid competitors, who hugged the surface, using their legs as shock absorbers, Zimmermann boldly catapulted over the bumps with great, bounding leaps of 45 ft. or more. Crouching low, he plunged headlong down an almost vertical precipice; his speed shot up to 60 m.p.h., his skis chattered, and the wind whistled through the ear holes in his crash helmet. Finally Zimmermann...