Word: dumbstruck
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mayor LaGuardia and Leon Henderson, veteran prophets of civilian destitution, were dumbstruck. Manpower Czar McNutt, who had privately argued for a National Service Act early in the year, dropped his dead issue...
...signs. Out went the New York Times's electric bulletins -as though time itself had quit on Broadway. The only light a plane could see came from a pale "bomber's" moon, touching the skyscraper towers and silvering the rivers. Crowds in Times Square watched the phenomenon, dumbstruck. Broadway's lights probably will not glitter brightly again until the war is over. "Dim-outs" will be the nightly rule, so that no sky-glow can limn ships at sea, betraying them to U-boats...