Word: concussional
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Mrs. Winston Churchill was abed with a slight concussion and bruises; she got them on Lake Geneva when a speedboat she was riding made a quick turn and tossed her against the gunwale.
Within a minute, the air shock wave hit the Appalachian with the concussion of a 16-in. gun fired close at hand. The ship had already felt the underwater blast, like the push of a nearby depth charge.
Last week, an unobserved concussion jarred Annie's dormant time fuse into action. No. 2 Bomb-Disposal Company, which had started to dig it out, declared that, unless the bomb blew itself up, it would have to be detonated. With a mental groan, Londoners kept thinking of that thing...
*Unofficial scientists guessed at: 1) continued radioactivity in the bombed area, 2) mysterious rays of concentrated neutrons, 3) "concussion pneumonia."
Mumbling about what happens to the "hypothalamic proclivities" when they are released through concussion from "the higher control of the cortex," the special ist began to draw the marks of the wound on a scratch pad. "A person in this state," he concluded, "may find ... his disability offers a convenient...