Word: shock
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...miners, burrowed from four different angles on the thin chance that the trapped men might still live. A pipe was forced into the mine tomb and, six days after the cave-in, Dr. Robertson's voice cried faintly, "Hello. We are all right." All, however, were suffering from shock, starvation, exposure. Brandy, chocolate, soup, Bi-so-dol, oilskins, flashlights and candles were dropped down the 5-in. pipe. Then a new menace appeared when water began flooding the wrecked mine. With freedom or drowning a matter of hours away, Dr. Robertson announced up the tube: "Magill is dead...
Called "Principal" because he is head of an independent theological college, Jeffreys is a literal Bible-believer, practices baptism by immersion (see cut, p. 38). Years ago he suffered a facial paralysis. Studying for the Congregational ministry, he was praying one Sunday when he suddenly felt a powerful "electric shock" which cured him. In the past nine years some 160 persons have solemnly sworn that Principal Jeffreys healed them of paralysis, blindness, tumors, cancers...
...warnings of those who at first wished the Student Union well have gone unheeded. Not only has the radical shock-brigade been as uncompromising as ever in the Harvard organization, but has dealt it the death blow by surrendering its independence to a national cabal...
...shock of that amalgamation so startled the Hoovers that for a time they considered abandoning the field entirely. When they recovered some of their morale, they closed ranks, marched...
Death lists mounted as corpses were washed up, survivors expired of shock and exposure. Total known dead early this week...