Word: shocks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...totaled $350,750,000, a new record for West Berlin; twice as many tourists were flooding the city (many to view the ugly Wall itself) as came at the same time last year; the once-worrisome population exodus was now ended. Said Clay: "West Berliners have recovered from the shock of the Wall ... It is the healthiest-looking withering city you ever...
Abandoned Hope. But Boualem is far more a realist than a romantic. To Gardes's shock, he flatly refused to cooperate, even tipped off the local French commander that the outposts had fallen...
Screamed London's evening paper headlines": FARES SHOCK! Sprouts & Privacy. Last week fare shocks and Tiddlydike nostalgia reached a record peak. Dr. Richard Beeching, the blunt, brusque businessman hired-for $67,000 a year, highest salary ever paid a British civil servant-to shunt the nationalized railways out of the red, announced a nationwide 10% fare boost...
...supposed to bring at Sotheby's next June was ?1,000,000, or $500,000 more than the record-breaking $2,300,000 that the Metropolitan Museum of Art paid last November for Rembrandt's Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer. The staggering sum only increased the shock of the academy's announcement. Having sneered at the fusty place for nearly 200 years, the public now began to snarl...
...hearing was uncertain, and the shock of hair that tumbled down his forehead and over one eye was as white as the first snow of December. Last month he was 88. But the familiar slightly husky tone still rang in the old man's voice as he talked about his recent sickness and his new slim volume of poems, In the Clearing, his first collection of new work to be published in 15 years...