Word: shocks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...come from defense. For the current fiscal year, Pentagon planners will be allowed to find their own way of apportioning the approximately $6 billion required. Although that would entail for the first time since 1979 a reduction in military spending after inflation, it could probably be accomplished thanks to "shock absorber" clauses that apply only for the current fiscal year. In future years, cuts in military spending of 10% or more may have to be made, with little Pentagon discretion about where the ax will fall...
...Boston formed mass picket lines to defend Greyhound workers. It was one of the most critical labor battles following Reagan's crushing of PATCO, and the SYL brought students down to stand in those picket lines. When we called Joseph to come down at 6 a.m. his response was shock and dismay: "You mean that people get up for work that early?" Again, he didn't show. For his obvious disinterest in working class struggle, Joseph was appointed labor reporter at The Crimson. To secure his post, Joe was told he would have to abide by Crimson discipline--he couldn...
This rude shock paled in comparison to the one I got 20 minutes later, when I entered a Woolco and saw another Santa. This one declared that the other one was an impostor sent by the Heat Miser to destroy him, but be did not convince me in the least. He was Vietnamese, and could not have weighed over 130 pounds...
...seven children, a diligent student growing up in a segregated but, as she remembers it, happy Portsmouth neighborhood. Even as a child singing in her Protestant church choir, she was something special. Remembers Voice Teacher Charles % Varney, who first heard her sing when she was eight: "It was a shock to me to hear this tiny little thing singing so beautifully. I went to her later and told her God had blessed her, and she must always, always sing...
John McGivaren is a retired Navy pilot who found Freeport a quiet village when he moved here in 1977. Two years ago, with the pace quickening, Barbara campaigned against pell-mell development and won a seat on the town council. "We experienced a shock," she says. "Where Hathaway (shirts) is was Downs' grocery. That went out of business. Bass (shoes) used to be Freeport Variety, the paper store, and that's where you met your neighbor." Freeport has been gentrified, she says, by stores too pricey for her constituents. Yet, she confesses, "I'll tell you what...