Word: shocks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Without a great deal of conviction. I'll pick Loyola to beat Duke tonight and shock Cincinnati tomorrow. Admittedly, the Bearcats do everything well, but they have been showing signs of mortality this year. Cincinnati's 37-game winning streak was wrecked last month by Wichita, and they have just managed to salvage recent games against Tulsa, Xavier, Drake, and Bradley...
...very recently become a Harvard tradition that the only thing to do during spring vacation is to vacation in the Caribbean. The sun and games of the once underdeveloped islands are apparently all that one needs to recover from the shock of hour exams and papers...
...England's Eton is to tutor England's Establishment, which is to say that a man had better respect the customs. Headmaster Robert Birley, who took over in 1949, seemed at times a bit rebellious. To the shock of Pop, the school club with old boys in high places, Birley opened Eton's doors to a few lads from the lower classes. Last year, when Birley was passed over for a knighthood, the London Sunday Telegraph blamed the "Pop lobby." This summer Birley will quit with a year yet to go on the usual 15-year tenure...
...welcomed the sunset one day last week. It brought to an end another day-long fast imposed by the holy month of Ramadan. Families gathered at table to break their fast with the traditional Ramadan dinner-and many died where they were sitting, for sunset brought the shock and terror of the worst earthquake in Libyan history...
...abominable deceptions; in the name of some primitive conception of things that are done and not done Griselda submits to them. At the climax Babe departs completely from Chaucer; although Walter has planned the reunion carefully so that "everything will be just as it was," Griselda dies of shock in the middle. Walter, now completely overcome by his vision, acclaims the event as a perfect culmination, and the pageant (a dozen masked and caped men dancing to a frightening chorus of parallel fifths and thundering drums) becomes a celebration of death. Horrified, the son Richard shrinks from his father...