Word: shockingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been a source of amazement and disappointment both here and at other schools. That Harvard not only failed to lead the opposition to the loyalty provisions in the Act but also failed to follow the lead given by Princeton, Swarthmore and other institutions no doubt comes as a shock to all those who picture the University as the nation's champion of academic freedom...
...subjects were then told, in such way as to minimize any anxiety they might have, that they would be given electric shocks. Each subject was asked to take a shock that was highly painful, but he was allowed his own level of shock, which then remained constant in the rest of the experiment.5Subject HARRIET MILLER is placed in the polygraph apparatus. This machine was used to record data for DR. RONALD E. SHOR on the physiological responses to pain while under hypnosis...
Using simple strokes and surefire cliches, always working from the outside out, now shaking their heads over what goes on and now smacking their lips, Playwrights Lawrence and Lee give their play a fair amount of story interest and shock value, while Actor Melvyn Douglas, with a brilliant impersonation, wins sympathy for their hero. But wherever the pull of the play is not purely factual it seems flagrantly fictional, particularly in a weak last act. It brings no insight to any of the questions it raises. It gets beneath none of the skin it flays. Nor does The Gang...
...Shock Avoided. On Sunday morning Eisenhower was up early, drove 25 miles to attend service at the United Presbyterian Church at Gettysburg. After the one-hour-25-minute service he tol.d the pastor (Robert A. MacAskill): "I offered to bring Mr. Khrushchev to church, but he declined. He said it would be a shock to his people...
Before anyone else in the courtroom could move, Gunther Podola turned calmly away and stepped quickly and surely down the steps from the dock to the cells below. Faithful to the last to his profession of emotional shock and indifference, he showed no sign of realizing that he had just been sentenced to die on the gallows...