Word: shocks
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...briefing President Bush on the war plan. Pentagon planners suggest that more targets in Baghdad would be hit in the first 24 hours of Gulf War II than were hit in all 43 days of the first war. The U.S. military's goal would be to deliver "such a shock on the system that the Iraqi regime would have to assume early on that the end is inevitable," Air Force General Richard Myers, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told TIME last week...
Adjusting to the daily grind, physical play and endless stream of hotel suites can be tough for any rookie in professional basketball. But when the Dallas Mavericks' Dirk Nowitzki first moved to the NBA four years ago, he faced more of a culture shock than most. Nowitzki, a seven-footer from Germany, couldn't play much defense (which earned him the nickname "Irk") and was briefly tagged, as many European imports are, a "soft" player who shies away from contact. He often found himself riding the bench, so he had lots of time to work on his English...
...feminism from a not-so-distant past (that of Wendy Shalit and A Return to Modesty), and I look around the dining hall to see others with their jaws agape, gasping for breath and possibly drooling because of a publication produced with shameless gusto by women who love to shock and provoke. There must be a thousand grit-stained copies of the Salient quickening pulses and/or churning stomachs in the Harvard dining halls. We read on out of the same “morbid fascination” with which Cardinale claims to watch “Joe Millionaire?...
...entire region's landscape in two ways--by inspiring sclerotic kingdoms and repressive regimes to embrace democracy and by helping "set in motion" peace between Israelis and Palestinians. Bush has embraced neoconservative theology here: the U.S. is invading a dysfunctional part of the world to fix it, and the shock of war will finally jolt the Arab world into better health. It's an audacious idea but not a working plan. Neither Bush nor any Administration official has detailed how the wave of democratization would occur...
...turtleneck and baggy jeans, we might have seen the end of her, but the leather-clad Elektra is getting her own spin-off. The already announced sequel is no surprise: Daredevil made $45 million in its opening weekend. But news of Elektra's spin-off is more of a shock. Not to give anything away, but her health seemed somewhat less than robust at the end of the film...