Word: shock
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...running toward a medium-sized bomb when it burst. My mouth was open and the shock was so violent that I was unable to breathe for some seconds, and indeed thought that my throat had been torn away, and that I had only another half-minute or so to live. I did not notice that I had been wounded until I felt that my throat was intact, and managed to start breathing again...
...greatest number in service at one time was 20,000 in February 1937. Used as shock troops, never allowed to rest for long, shifted from one busy front to another, the Internationals' casualties have been staggeringly high. They filled up bad gaps of a slowly forming Leftist Army in the early days of the war. The French volunteers led in numbers, followed by Poles, German exiles (Thaelmann Battalion), Italian exiles (Garibaldi Battalion), English, the U. S. volunteers (Abraham Lincoln and George Washington Battalions, later simply Lincoln-Washington Battalion), Canadians (Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion), many Central Europeans...
...that Britain and France demanded Czechoslovakia yield part of the Sudetenland to Germany with out even a plebiscite. "Impossible ! That can't be true!" Government officials cried as press wires first broke the news, later confirmed to President Benes by the British and French Ministers. In London, the shock "cracked" Czechoslovak Minister Jan Masaryk, son of the late founder of Czechoslovakia, and he took his break down to bed. In Paris, the Czech Minister Stefan Osusky left the Foreign Office with tears in his eyes, crying: "Do you want to see a man convicted without a hearing? Here...
A.R.R.L. engineers concluded that he had listened for NBC's sound, had reached under the table to plug in his power supply for pictures. In withdrawing his hand he seemed to have brushed loose a high-voltage wire, got a shock which threw him to the floor. There the loose wire apparently completed the circuit to his earphones, may have carried through his head more than a full ampere of current...
...would obviously be easier than in 1914- margins are 40% now against about 10% then and volume of sales has increased some eight times, making foreign holdings and trading less relatively important. Last week the SEC and the Exchange had their heads together on methods of cushioning the inevitable shock that war liquidation would bring. Day after the Sudeten ultimatum to Czechoslovakia, volume rocketed to 2,800,000 shares and prices broke to new lows since June (132 on the Dow-Jones Industrial scale...