Word: shocks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...slag heap towering above it like a black, oozing Everest. Then one morning last week, David John Evans, a maintenance man with a local colliery, climbed to the top of the waste heap to look into reports that the gigantic mass was moving. With a shock, Evans discovered that it was. "Suddenly I saw the heap shifting," he recalled later. "The movement was like thunder. I could hear trees on each side being crushed to matchwood...
...August (a secret government inquiry is exploring the lapse in screening); then, acting on the impulse that he blamed on the demon inside him, Tsafendas attacked Verwoerd as he was about to make his first major policy speech of the Assembly session. "I can expect a certain amount of shock and dissatisfaction among certain people," Justice Beyers noted after his decision, "but I am sure they will realize it could not be otherwise, and that it is not humane or Christian to condemn mentally ill people. I can as little try a man who has not at least the makings...
...story apartment house." Songwriter Simon, a short moonfaced lad whose lyrics are studied in a few high school English courses, does not admit to any big message. "We are just creating doubts and raising questions," he explains. Garfunkel, a Columbia University graduate student who sports a Dr. Zorba shock of electrified hair, says: "Pop music is the most vibrant force in music today. It's like dope-so heady, so alive...
...seems, there are indications that the North Vietnamese regime is convinced that Lyndon Johnson's war policy will be overwhelmingly repudiated by American voters on Nov. 8. Hanoi, misled by the noisy dissent of antiwar groups in the U.S., may well be in for a rude shock...
When Clark finally tramped on the throttle, he got the sweetest shock of the year. "The car ran beautifully." His luck had turned again-and so had his competitors'. Italy's Lorenzo Bandini, the early pacesetter, was forced out when his Ferrari developed engine trouble on the 34th lap. Champion Brabham took over - but a cam follower on his Brabham-Repco snapped on the 55th lap. Gunning his Lotus into the lead; Jimmy Clark stayed there the rest of the way, averaging a record 114.94 m.p.h. to win the 20th Grand Prix of his career and the biggest...