Word: shocks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Jurymen and spectators in a darkened Belgian courtroom last week gasped with shock as a professor of clinical medicine showed lantern slides of babies who had been born without arms or legs, or with other crippling deformities because their mothers had taken thalidomide early in pregnancy. The young mother in the prisoner's box covered her eyes. She had seen such a baby last May. It was her own, and she had killed it. Now she was on trial for her life. Being tried with her for conspiracy were her husband, mother, sister, and their family doctor, Jacques Casters...
Martine R. Mercier '66 was struck and injured by a bus Friday afternoon while riding her bicycle on Quincy St., near Burr Lecture Hall. She was still being held Friday evening at Mt. Hospital, where she was treated for shock...
Naturally, JC never understands Kitten. Readers, making their way through her frantic, phonetic dialect, in which breathtaking obscenities are so pervasive that they soon cease to shock, will at first sympathize with him. But Author Gover is gleefully staging the classic confrontation between educated fool and ignorant sage. Even in broken English, Kitten soon turns out to be a lot smarter and pleasanter than JC. When he decides to steal her car and keep it until she returns the money, he describes the move "as a last recourse to retaliatory capability, humanely applied as persuasion rather than force...
...sharp drop in the plasma's protein content (the result of drastic surgery, a burn or an accident) is one of the factors that make shock catastrophic and possibly fatal. So the long-mysterious lymph system is a means of combating shock...
...drink less black coffee and more champagne. Actually pop-novel sex has become fairly standard, as has pop-novel prose. Competitors watch each other carefully; if Grace Metalious builds her fall line around flagellation, Rona Jaffe counters with fetishism. Already the point has passed where even abnormal sex can shock; to twitchy teenagers hovering around drugstore racks, Krafft-Ebing is no big deal...