Word: shocks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite all the headlines and all the talk during a long and hard week, Britons-and many others in the Western world-experienced a deep sense of shock at the news. Until the last minute, there were hopes and rumors that Britain would be able to free herself, at least temporarily, from the heavy pressures on the pound by getting a massive loan from its Western allies. After all, the pound is one of the two international reserve currencies (with the dollar), and its devaluation was bound to throw the West into a severe monetary crisis. Still, there...
...shock waves from the earthquake also caused seiches (water oscillations) in rivers, lakes and protected harbors along the U.S. Gulf Coast from Texas to Florida. At New Orleans, a drawbridge tender felt the span shake beneath his feet, and a sudden rise of from 1½ to 5 ft. in the level of the Mississippi caused docked vessels to break loose from their moorings. In Atlantic City, N.J., (more than 4,000 miles from the quake), the thorough scientists report, water sloshed over the top of a hotel swimming pool...
Harold Hector of 183 Columbia St., Cambridge, was treated at Massachusetts General Hospital for shock and cuts and bruises he had received outside the church after he and other Resistance members scuffled with pro-war demonstrators, many of them Government Center construction workers...
...passengers arrive: a pair of horrifying punks (Tony Musante and Martin Sheen) high on muscatel and low on decency. By turns wildly obstreperous and slimily cozy, they work their way up and down the car, baiting here, pummeling there, lucid only in their awareness of their own power to shock and paralyze. The numbed passengers can only respond in ineffectual cliches. "What kind of people are you?" screams one, all too aware of the answer. The Negro (Brock Peters), sensing in the punks' violence a kindred spirit, attempts to make friends, is brutally rebuffed, and finally collapses in empty...
...partly because the unknown always tantalizes man's curiosity. That alone can account for the popularity of books on the subject, even those that have been proved wrong. But this volume and its authors provide a better reason for estimating the look of tomorrow. The future has enormous shock value for a world that has not sought to take its measure in advance. If the world at the beginning of the 21st century were to be as "intellectually unprepared" for change as it was in 1929, 1941 and 1947, write the authors, it would be "subjected to some very...