Thirteen days later, Eagleton conceded what Democrats and journalists had been whispering about for days: that he had been hospitalized three times in the 1960s for depression and stress, and that he had undergone electric shock therapy.

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The student asked this question very gently and non-threateningly, but her directness and the fact that she was an African American woman herself caused her question to rattle around my brain like a course of electric shock therapy.

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He believes the nation would be best served by a short, sharp, electric-shock-therapy approach, enduring the short-term pain of austerity in exchange for the long-term gains derived from being part of a better European economy.

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