Word: shock
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stomach might figuratively tear the poor animal in two. . . . He didn't spend years doing bending and mat exercises. A man has 24 ribs. Your encyclopedia will tell you that a gorilla has but 13. Between the ribs, below the breastbone, there are nerve centres. If they are shocked the shock travels to the spine, temporarily causing paralysis. The ribs, and well developed muscles between the ribs, protect these nerve centres. Twenty-four ribs are much more protection than...
Some 200,000 of China's central army's best-equipped troops backed slowly westward along the railway all week, allowing Lanfeng and Kaifeng to fall, finally holed up in Chengchow, and at week's end Japanese bombers hammered at the city. Japanese shock troops pressed at its sides. Capture of Chengchow would enable the Japanese to right-angle down 300 miles of railway to Hankow. Only serious obstacle in their path will be the Chinese defense fortifications in the southern Honan mountains near Sinyang. Meanwhile, two Japanese forces pushing from the Nanking area to Hankow...
...Harding, Mary Astorand the late Robert Ames in the leading roles, indicated amazingly that in talking pictures the cinema industry had found a medium which could rival the stage in its appeal to civilized, adult audiences. Now in its third edition, Holiday proves capable of providing one more shock...
...that many U. S. volunteers captured earlier in the war had been summarily shot without trial, most of them by grizzled, hard-boiled Legionnaires of the Tercio de Extranjeros (Spanish Foreign Legion). The Legionnaires, all Spaniards but part of the Rightists' Moroccan army corps, are Franco's shock troops and thus frequently bang up against the U. S. and foreign fighters, shock troops for the Barcelona Government. The Italians, more lenient with their captives, were reported to have insisted on a Rightist guarantee that U. S. and other International Brigade prisoners taken by the Italian legions...
...drew 924 members to the polls, a record. Since the reform slate was unopposed, those die-hards who wished to show disapproval had only one way to do so: by scratching names off the ballots. The man whose name was scratched most-163 times-was shock-haired Broker Paul Vincent Shields of Shields & Co. For this the reason was clear: Broker Shields, more than any other Wall Streeter, is responsible for the Exchange's change of front...