Word: shocks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shock of not having the family doctor at the other end of the telephone was abruptly brought home on the first day of the strike. When Mrs. Vicky Derhousoff put her nine-month-old son Carl to bed in their home at Usherville, he was running a fever. Next morning the fever was higher. Peter Derhousoff tried to phone the doctors in nearby Preeceville, was told that both were on vacation. A nurse at the Preeceville Hospital told him to take the baby to Yorkton, 91 miles away. On the road, says Derhousoff, "I began to realize...
...That? That the talent-laden Dodgers sat atop the National League astonished no one. But the Angels were the shock of the year. They did not even exist until last season, when Cowboy-Singer Gene Autry (himself a Dodger fan) forked over $2,150,000 for a franchise and a crew of ballplayers unloaded by other American League clubs. Last year the Angels were lucky to win 70 games and finish eighth in the ten-team league. Most sportswriters picked them for eighth this season-and on paper, the estimate still looks generous...
CONFLICT, by Robert Leckie (448 pp.; Putnam; $6.95). In this first full-scale history of the Korean war, former Marine Robert Leckie dramatically reconstructs the bloody, bitter battles of a frustrating war. He brings alive the shock of the North Korean invasion, the "bugouts" of terrified G.I.s, the blare of Chinese bugles in the night, the quiet heroism of soldiers and marines dying on nameless hillsides in an alien land. Like many another marine. Leckie has a low opinion of General Douglas MacArthur, whom he charges with making a fatal mistake in splitting his forces for the dash...
...have been done at Kazin's desk. Far too many of these pieces read like first drafts; they contain only preliminary thought, the superstructure of an essay, which should largely disappear from the finished product. One comes upon the final few sentences of an essay with something of a shock: "What? That...
...Eventually the young man collected himself, wrote a campaign biography of Lincoln, and was given the consulship at Venice as a reward. When he returned, he became editor of the Atlantic and settled in Boston, where no one forced him to observe police-court reality and the most severe shock to his sensibilities was Mark Twain's swearing...