Word: thunderstruck
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis gave, on an unforgettable day five years ago, such an example of courage, dignity and true love to a thunderstruck world that nothing, absolutely nothing can ever erase it from our hearts. So let her marry whomever she fancies, wear her skirts as high as she pleases, do any crazy, foolish thing she can think of. She has all the right in the world...
...almost knocked over as he hurried into a $25-a-head cocktail party for Philadelphia's electioneering Mayor James Tate. Unflappable Campaigner Humphrey recovered his balance and shook hands with the two girls, who were clad only in black boots, tight red leotards and astonished expressions. "I was thunderstruck," said Joan Krauss, 23. "I'm not used to meeting Vice Presidents in my underwear...
Leyton's thunderstruck discovery that Mom is a woman capable of physical desire looks a bit forced since Actress Jones plays her from the start as a very turned-on lady. Jennifer, now 47, even goes at her gardening with a provocative air, tugging at her blouse front while she breathlessly inquires of her son's pal: "Ever been to Corsica? The sun beats on you like a hammer . . . delicious, frightening." Her ultimate surrender proceeds, posture by posture, through moments of squeamish abandon on a dance floor to a New Year's eve when she sweeps downstairs...
...verdict: "We, the jury, find the defendant guilty of murder with malice and assess the penalty at death." Ruby stared at the jury, bit his lip, then scuttled impassively out of the room behind a phalanx of sheriff's officers. But his attorney, barrel-chested Melvin Belli, was thunderstruck. He leaped to his feet, shouting, "Don't worry, Jack! We'll appeal this and take it out of Dallas...
...plan to end "the excesses, dry the tears, heal the wounds." In return, "we have promised special pledges in order to obtain from God the boon that none of the members of the [Trujillo] family shall ever experience the sufferings that today afflict the hearts of so many." Thunderstruck by open Catholic opposition, churchgoers left early Masses, talked nervously in church courtyards, returned to hear the letter read again at the next Mass. Collection plates overflowed with cash and donations of jewelry...