Word: shocks
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Coeducational living is only one of many fundamental changes at the College during the past few years. Students in the 1980s have leapt into the preprofessional melee with a vigor that would shock many students of the 1960s and 1970s. Students of the 1920s would be suprised at the geographic and ethnic diversity of each incoming class. In fact, diversity has become the major sales pitch of the admissions staff...
...Cameroon army had laid to rest most of the populations of the three hardest-hit villages: Nios, Su-Bum and Cha. At least 300 people, many of them farmers from the surrounding hills, clogged the area's few hospitals, sharing beds with other victims while they awaited treatment for shock and burns. Perhaps another 3,000 refugees, displaced from their homes on the fringes of the affected 10-sq.-mi. area, were evacuated by army troops. All told, it was estimated that 20,000 lives were upended by the freakish disaster that was aptly, if ineloquently described by M. Peter...
Many sociologists have speculated (widely, of course) about the love affair between journalese-users and hyphenated modifiers. The gist of all this cerebration seems to be that readers cannot stand the shock of an unmodified noun, at least on first reference. Thus we have Libyan-sponsored terrorism, Ping-Pong diplomacy, debt-laden Brazil and the two most popular hyphenated modifiers of the 1980s, "financially-troubled" and "financially-plagued," which can fairly be used to describe most Latin American nations, many banks and the United States Football League. The Syrian-backed P.L.O., an earlier hyphenated champion, had to be retired when...
Despite the rapid spread of AIDS throughout the developing world, its appearance in India came as a shock to the country. The case of the young woman, as well as those of 18 other Indians known to have been infected with the virus (two of whom have died), is thought to be just the beginning. Poverty and a burgeoning population of more than 750 million make it difficult for Indian doctors to cope with even familiar diseases, such as tuberculosis, malaria and cholera. Now that the first AIDS cases have been detected, says Dr. V. Ramalingaswami, former director general...
...with a desire to locate the unknown father of her son. Some 15 years before, she conceived after two years of copulating with a masked inseminator who had been eugenically selected at a "contact clinic." Fizzy, Moura's biologically tailored offspring, is the liveliest illustration of Theroux's future shock. He combines scientific genius with an arrogant and obnoxious mouth. He is also an example of postliterate man, a computer virtuoso who can barely write a simple message with a pencil. Yet Fizzy is young and, despite a hothouse upbringing, proves dramatically adaptable...