Word: shocks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Eight for One. The silos, too, are mechanical marvels. Their massive doors and shock-mounting are so effective that only a direct missile hit could knock them out; Pentagon strategists figure an enemy would have to throw at least eight missiles at each one to have any assurance of destroying it. Each missile is suspended so that the earth could rock but the bird would still fly straight...
Fracture of the base of the skull, with laceration of the fornix cerebri (white fibers connecting the brain's hemispheres); contusion of the frontal and temporal lobes; severe shock; fracture of nine ribs; pneumothorax (air in the pleural space around the lungs); hemothorax (blood in the same space); rupture of the pubic bone junction; fractures of the pubic, hip and haunch bones, and of the head of the left thigh bone; severe contusions of abdominal organs; rupture of the urinary bladder; paralysis of both arms and both legs; gradual failing of circulation, and gradual failing of breathing, apparently from...
Faced by the shock of war, Indians have shed illusion for the reality of a world where soft words are no substitute for bayonets when an aggressor strikes...
...threat is fundamentally a positive one. It seeks to shock the White American from his insulated world of false satisfaction about what little has been done to alter-basically the Negro's human situation. It seeks also to shock him from his irresponsible stance of taking for granted the Negro's plight, and from his belief nothing really earthshaking will occur among Negroes if their reality is not transformed in the near future. In short, Baldwin's aggressive--yet humane and sensitive--definition of the Negro's relationship to American society endeavors to bring White American to a proper comprehension...
...stronger than they were before. For the first time in his life, the lawyer loves as a grown man loves, taking what he wants and leaving what he doesn't; and what he doesn't want, he decides, is to spend his life with Gittel. The shock is painful, but for the first time in her life she refuses to give herself to a man who doesn't want her self. She sends him home, and home he goes to make a new and hopeful start...