Word: shocks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...statute of the British naval regulations of 1797 prescribed that no officer of Her Majesty's armada could wear a beard. It is a shock, indeed, to view Peter Ustinov with a clean-shaven countenance. Yet Mr. Ustinov's eventual victory in his battle against eighteenth century decorum must indicate the decline of Britain and her navy; the multi-talented Ustinov--producer, director, co-writer, and star of Billy Budd--completely dominates this ambitious production of Melville's novel...
This line of thought leads us to a surprising parallel between neutralism and Gaullism, though we have argued above (February 16) that they are very different. Half of the Social-Democratic International thinks that since the Cold War is not their quarrel, they should not provide shock troops for the Western monster. The Gaullists reason that the Cold War is not their quarrel, but that they should be permitted to make it so. Gaullists therefore accept the American contention that Russia is a threat which unites Western Europe to America, but they accept it on the condition that a real...
...Kennedy noted, "disables ten times as many people as diabetes, 20 times as many as tuberculosis." About 400,000 children are so retarded that they need constant care; more than 200,000 are in institutions, in many of which "the standard of care is so grossly deficient as to shock the conscience of all who see them." Each year, 125,000 recruits are born to join the ranks of the retarded...
Smoke settled in the crowded rooms, voices cracked, tempers rose, and then, the hush. The first model. Under the hot white lights she seemed put together of plastic, not flesh; skin dead-pale, so thin that when she swallowed her body trembled with the shock, she strutted and twirled as if a newly wound toy, never perspiring, only glistening prettily. Buyers scribbled on programs: nice cut, good lines, but can it be copied easily? Will it go in Passaic? The press looked frantically for trends: everything old? Anything borrowed? How about a trend toward the old and borrowed? Customers clapped...
...again in sufficient quantities for research. A whole container of bees is anesthetized with a whiff of carbon monoxide, and then, one at a time, the insects are wrapped in a sash of aluminum foil that is connected to a source of high-voltage, low-current electricity. A brief shock causes the stinging muscles to contract and excrete venom...