Word: shocks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Crimson team was in a virtual state of shock after the meet. Captain Ed Meehan had finished seventh, his worst performance in any meet for more than a year, and junior star Bill Crain stumbled home ninth...
Through the years, Connally's biting wit was feared by his Senate colleagues. He once snappishly advised New Hampshire Republican Styles Bridges that he should "approach these matters with an open mind instead of an open mouth." He left Ohio Republican Robert Taft speechless with shock by accusing him of "cravenly going around begging for a few dirty, filthy votes." He warned New Hampshire's Bible-quoting Republican Charles Tobey: "Don't you ever shake that lanky Yankee finger at me." He attacked Chiang Kai-shek for "stealing" U.S. aid money, advised that "the trouble with...
...fluoridation referendum, 16,802 people voted to end treatment of the City's water supply and 15,368 voted to continue it. The result came as a shock to those who supported fluoridation, since they had managed to get it approved by a 42-vote margin in a 1959 referendum, after losing by over 6000 votes...
...That shock, however, caused wide-spread comment and even some panic. Its epicenter was located about 60 miles northeast of Cambridge, and it was felt as far away as Maine...
...Fast-Drift Bursts. These bursts also drift from high to low frequencies, but with great rapidity. Each burst lasts roughly one second, and the drift rate corresponds to an outward velocity of 100,000 km/sec. Such radiation may be due either to fast traveling nuclear particles of to shock waves in the corona. Although Type III events have been associated with numerous small flares, they do not appear to have any effect on the earth...