Word: shocks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...there would be a reunion at her house next year. "I thought it would continue as it was," said Joe Pluhar, sadly. "We developed it into a business that I think was an institution, and inside of a week he has practically dumped it. It certainly gave us a shock...
...Crimson's systematic dismantling of the team Harvard Coach Don Usher labeled the weakest in the issues came as no great shock...
Rivers poses some interesting questions and makes some interesting points, but the book still isn't very satisfying. It is supposed to shock people into believing, even perhaps approving what he does, but it doesn't even entertain. Questions like "Does the United States hire assasins?" are not shocking since the CIA's assasination attempts against Fidel Castro were revealed some two decades ago. At least those stories from the Castro plots were funny...
...dumping them on to Bantustans, the restrictive homelands which double as cultural prisons. And since we started school in September, South Africa's police forces have gunned down more than 240 Blacks, arrested 3000 more, and waded into peaceful demonstrations of elementary school children with swinging billy clubs, electric shock batons, and tear gas. The list of casualties grows daily...
...begins the film Silent Scream, a 28-minute, shock-the-viewer indictment of abortion. The movie, distributed by American Portrait Films of Anaheim, Calif., depicts through ultrasound imaging what happens in the womb during the abortion of a twelve-week-old fetus. The images are grainy and vague, but Narrator Nathanson provides explanation. "The child," he says, "senses aggression in its sanctuary" and moves in an "agitated" manner away from the surgical instruments in a "pathetic attempt to escape." Its heart rate $ increases as it "senses mortal danger," and, he notes, pointing to a fuzzy image, it opens its mouth...