Word: shocks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...surprise to everybody," Harvard Captain Paul Nicholas said. "It was a shock to everyone--nobody on the team had any idea...
Some scientists suggest that each arc might have been formed as a result of a huge explosion within a nearby galaxy. Expanding shock waves from this blast would have compressed surrounding gases, clumping molecules together and setting off the process by which stars form. But that process should produce bubbles -- that is, voids surrounded by a spherical "skin" of stars. These arcs are virtually two-dimensional strands of stars. Besides, astronomers have not detected enough gas in the area to have formed structures as large as the arcs...
...adult author attempts the difficult task of recalling a thirteen-year-old's confusion, incredulity and shock at the whirlwind of tragedy which buffeted him. Fact and fiction are inextricably mixed. To patch the gaps in his memory, Maspero reimagines the half-mad atmosphere of a 1944 France through the widening, narrowing eyes of a child called...
...especially misses his older brother Antoine, who likes explaining things as much as Cat likes asking questions. When Antoine shoots three German officers and runs away to join the maquis, the Gestapo questions and deports his parents. Cat reels with uncomprehending shock. He runs away from the smug, bourgeois household of his aunt and uncle and embarks on a series of adventures in hope of finding his brother...
...Kidney Stones? Who Ya Gotta Call . . . Stonebusters!" With that jarring punch line, Saint Joseph Medical Center in Burbank, Calif., is touting its newly acquired lithotripter, a device that disintegrates kidney stones with shock waves...