Word: shocks
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...kill, smart enough to cover his tracks afterward. "All I know is that something would happen and I would have my arms around their necks," he told an investigator. (Junger makes extensive and creepily effective use of police transcripts.) DeSalvo sometimes posed his victims after the crime for shock value and left the victim's underwear knotted in a decorative bow around her neck...
...Archimedes was leaping from his bath. By linking our belief engine to the use of tools, Wolpert suggests a more fruitful engagement between science and faith than the either/or conflict we're normally asked to take sides in. Wolpert, 76, was prompted to write the book by the shock of a conversation with his son Matthew, who had joined a fundamentalist Christian church. Matthew told his father he envied him because the elder Wolpert would die soon and get to heaven first. That logic still troubles the scientist, but the parent in him now accepts that the church...
...will be his deputy, Joel Kaplan - a veteran of both the Marine Corps and Bolten?s policy shops in Austin and the West Wing. Officials said Bolten will look at the White House from top to bottom and may make changes of his own, but a radical realignment would shock people quite close to Bush...
...recent retiree’s face when he returned to the clubhouse following his annual one-on-one meeting with Indians top brass. As he shook hands with the young men he has called teammates for the six previous seasons, there seemed to be a look of both shock and uncertainty on his face: a mix between “is this really happening?” and “someone please convince me this is a bad decision.” Another teammate recounted the details of a meeting in which he was told he may be placed...
...ever since Jabr was appointed Interior Minister after the January 2005 election brought a religious Sh'ite coalition to power, Sunnis allege, he began remaking the paramilitary National Police into Shi'ite shock troops. A member of the Iranian-backed Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI), Jabr fled to Iran in the 1970s to avoid Saddam's crackdown. Jerry Burke, a former civilian senior police advisor to the Interior Ministry, said Jabr's experience with Saddam's government has left him bitter and distrustful of anyone he suspects has ties to the previous regime. That would most...