Word: shocks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...getting him off scot-free from the most widely viewed killing in world history. It was only a bail hearing in Dallas' criminal court, but in its course the lawyers clearly showed their intent to prove that Ruby shot Lee Harvey Oswald while temporarily insane from the shock of President Kennedy's assassination. If Chief Counsel Melvin Belli can prove that-and prove as well that Ruby is now recovered-it is possible that, under Texas law, Ruby could be a free...
...fact that nobody can be quite certain what Endgame means is, in the logic of the theater of the absurd, hardly a handicap. As interpreted by the Theater Company of Boston, the play is intended less to present an allegory or a message than simply to shock. Shock for its own sake, of course, would be merely discomforting. Shock as Endgame produces it wrenches the spectator into the absurdity of the drama and forces him somehow to identify with all the characters at once--they are all abstractions of the ages of man--and to share with them their monstrous...
...bloody incident of the past weekend between my country, the Republic of Panama, and the U.S. [Jan. 17] has been one of shock and surprise to both our countries. We both share a deep sadness for the irreparable loss of our countrymen. All that remains for us to do is pray; pray for our deceased and pray for the re-establishment of a peaceful coexistence between our nations...
...free skating to defeat Pennsylvanian Tommy Litz, last year's champion. The women's champion: freckle-faced Peggy Fleming, 15, daughter of a pressman on the Los Angeles Times. Said Peggy's proud mother: "It wasn't a surprise to us. It was a complete shock...
...mean "controversial" in the gossipy sense, but rather to convey the taste of shock which some of his suggestions produce. "I hope that in coming years," Hughes writes...