Mr. Jackson shocked most observers by winning Shawnee County, which includes Topeka, with 32 delegates to Mr. Dukakis's 14 and Mr. Gore's four.

On their first international appearance together in Komatsu, Japan, they shocked observers by posting a 500 m time of 1:40.27.

Eartha Kitt shocked observers when she dined at the White House in 1968 - and took the opportunity to criticize Lyndon Johnson for his Vietnam policy.

In Detroit, Mr. Kilpatrick shocked local political observers not so much with his victory but with the size of his margin.

Thus the early years of the century, when war was taking on 'so decorous an aspect' in Western Europe, saw the conquered provinces of Livonia ravaged by the armies of Peter I with a ferocity which shocked Western observers.

His condition shocked most observers.

The 1995 Northwestern team in particular had shocked observers when it recorded a 10-2 season and the Big Ten championship.

It will show a power of assimilating the past which will shock foreign observers and sometimes make them doubt whether any revolution has happened.