Word: shocker
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...three best detective stories ever written." Bentley himself put another book at the top of his list: John Buchan's hare & hounds thriller, The Thirty-Nine Steps. He said as much to Author Buchan one day, and Buchan replied: "Why don't you write a shocker yourself? It's twenty times easier than writing a detective story, like Trent's Last Case...
WITHOUT ATTEMPTING TO CRITICIZE YOUR [JUNE 12] STORY ON THE SAFETY FILM SHOCKER, "LAST DATE," I AM SURPRISED YOU OVERLOOKED THE MOST OUTSTANDING TRAFFIC SAFETY FILM YET PRODUCED-"AND THEN THERE WERE FOUR...
...George Orwell's bestselling shocker Nineteen Eighty-Four, the inhabitants of his frightful dictator state are spied upon day & night by all-seeing television eyes. Great posters remind them that "Big Brother is watching...
Added Peurifoy: "Most of them were homosexuals. In fact, I would say all of them were." The committee did not stop to deal with this shocker. Bridges was ready with a second question for Acheson. "Would you say . . . that a friend of a known Communist would be a security risk?" "Yes, I should think probably so," Acheson responded. Then Bridges pounced: "Would you consider a friend of a person, convicted, say, of perjury in connection with a treasonable act and found guilty, a security risk?" Acheson flushed: the shoe fitted nobody present but himself, and no Democrat lifted a finger...
Tons of Neutrons. This week, on a similar broadcast, Brown repeated his shocker. Physicist Leo Szilard of Chicago added that 50 tons of neutrons released by hydrogen fusion could ring the earth with a radioactive dust layer capable of killing the earth's entire population. Physicists Frederick Seitz of the University of Illinois and Hans Bethe of Cornell, appearing on the same program, were more moderate, but they went along generally with their emphatic colleagues...