Word: shocks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shock when Charlotte Ford, 25, Henry IFs elder daughter, slipped off to Juarez, Mexico, in December 1965, to marry Greek Shipping Magnate Stavros Niarchos, who was 32 years her senior. But no one was especially surprised last week when Charlotte allowed that she was on her way back to Juarez. Though the Niarchoses have a ten-month-old daughter, Elena, for the past year Charlotte has been living in Manhattan, while her husband has been traveling around Europe and Africa. Last week, after working out a financial settlement for her daughter, Charlotte flew to Mexico with her mother and sister...
...offstage in the bathroom brushing his teeth. His wife, in the adjoining bedroom, calls out something. Suddenly the man appears, stark naked, toothbrush in hand, saying, "You know I can't hear you when the water's running." According to the playwright, this will trigger a "shock of recognition" in the audience, penis pity, perhaps...
...Kennedy's bereaved intimates during the hours immediately after the murder. The overwhelming impression created by Death's prepublication publicity is that Manchester condemns Johnson for needless cruelty. In the Look serialization, Manchester writes that "aspects of Johnson's behavior in a very understandable state of shock may have proven exacerbating." To this, Roberts replies that Johnson's assumption of power was "careful, correct, considerate and compassionate...
Record 102 M.P.H. Indeed, ease and safety are part of ski bobbing's appeal. Nonskiers can master the sport in a day or two, learning to use their legs as shock absorbers while the bob dances freely beneath them. Since there are four points of contact with the snow, spills happen much less frequently than in skiing, and enthusiasts insist that it is virtually impossible to break a leg. Even when elated beginners go too fast and hit a bump, the worst that usually happens is a harmless wipe-out in soft snow...
...institute seeks to stimulate creative Christian thinking on urban problems through weekend seminars that are open to outsiders. The seminars are larded with the institute's particular jargon-mind-set and imaginal education are favorite words-and faculty members rely on shock tactics to make listeners aware of the church's crisis situation. "When are you going to stop prettying up the heroes of the church so that people will know what kind of men they were?" demanded Lay Faculty Member Joe Pierce at one seminar. "Martin Luther? He was three sheets to the wind on German beer...