Word: shocks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...real issue is the improbability of conclusions based on evidence already in the report and the selectivity of the commission in what evidence to take as credible. The public, which experienced a profound shock over President Kennedy's assassination, deserves more satisfaction than TIME'S sincerest wishes about...
...this 25th anniversary, there are still a few staffers here who can recall that frantic Sunday. The first inkling at TIME was a roar from a senior editor as he read the first A.P. wire dispatch. After the initial shock, everything went in orderly progression. Staffers who were on vacation streamed back to the office. With only 24 hours until deadline time (the magazine went to press on Monday nights then), the editors scrapped the planned cover on Walt Disney's elephant Dumbo in favor of the commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, Admiral Husband Kimmel. A new section...
Because they are unaffected by temperature extremes, radiation, vibration or shock-conditions that often damage or knock out electronic circuits-fluidic controls show their greatest promise in aerospace and defense work. The Army has already successfully tested a fluidic roll-rate control on its TIM (test instrumentation) missile; it is evaluating a fluidic navigational device developed by Martin Marietta Corp. for use by foot soldiers. Honeywell Inc. has developed and flown a fluidic autopilot. In less esoteric applications, the new technology is being used on New York Central locomotives, General Electric turbines and the machinery that manufactures Speidel watchbands...
...viewer, who remains trapped in the paintings' distortion and violence. Thus Picasso's work continues to evoke both anger and adulation from critics and the public alike. But it is the fact that the world still tries to comprehend, despite a sense of outrage and shock, that is the final gauge of Picasso's genius...
...Shock knocks the scales off the in spector's eyes, and for one terrible instant he sees that he looks like a pig because he is a pig. For one terrible instant he stands ready to pay for the girl's life by taking his own. Next day, still looking like a small grey pig, the inspector is back on the job, back on the prowl. Character is fate...