Word: shocks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...turn to shock a highly ranked Eagle squad. The Terriers, 5-7-3 going into the tournament, rode a fantastic goaltending performance by then sophomore Cleon Daskalakis to a 3-1 win over an 11-4 B.C. club in the final...
...Culture Shock...
Peter Gabriel: Shock the Monkey (Brian Grant). Scarier than most horror movies; an electroshock anthem of alienation, with bleak music and bleached light...
...Lebanon and openly boasting about their military prowess in the face of the U.S. air attack. The Egyptians, whose peace treaty with Israel, orchestrated by the U.S. at Camp David, ranks as the most significant diplomatic achievement in the Middle East during the past decade, were publicly expressing shock over Washington's newly proclaimed alignment with Israel. In France, Italy and Britain, critics of those countries' commitments to the MultiNational Force in Lebanon were urging a pullout, though all three U.S. allies reaffirmed that they would leave their troops in place at least for the time being...
...Assad in 1970. Relatives of political suspects are sometimes held hostage until officials find their man; in one case, three family members were detained for nine years before their release in 1980. Twenty-three types of torture are listed in the report, including pouring boiling water on victims, electric shock and sexual abuse. An oft-used tactic is called dullab, in which a person is hung from a suspended tire and beaten with cables and whips. In one testimony, a 15-year-old boy told of being whipped and threatened with blindness if he did not reveal where his father...