Word: shock
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week came a shock as profound as if the sun had suddenly gone into unexpected eclipse. In a third of the nation men & women of the great American automobile age awoke to find they could no longer buy gasoline. The automobiles in which they rode to work and pleasure, to school and market, were nearly as obsolete as a dinosaur...
...nurses go to every battlefront, will probably be called upon to handle "the vast problems of disease, malnutrition and war shock that will exist in devastated areas" after the war ("Be a nurse and see the world...
Navy & Marine Corps Medal. Navy, 72; Marines, 2. Sample citation (to Shipfitter William Stanley Thomas) : "He went to the assistance of Commander F. Rohow, who had been injured [in the Pearl Harbor attack] and was floating in the water in a state of shock. He kept the Commander afloat until rescued...
...figured he threw about 300 lead punches. Out of ammunition, the men in the crater crouched and prayed. At dawn the prize fighter jumped out under cover of a cloud of smoke and, "half crawling and half walking," helped get the wounded to the rear. His purse: shell shock, malaria, minor shrapnel wounds, a corporal's rank, recommendation for a distinguished service award. His only complaint: "No referee to break the clinches...
...Oberlin's chemistry department, has long worked on vitamins and body chemistry, was first to isolate pure vitamin A in crystalline form (TIME, April 26, 1937). In an interview last fortnight he listed other recent uses for vitamin C: intravenous injection of one gram in solution for shock (another instance when blood histamine is high); in wound healing; for insomnia; in treating industrial workers exposed to toxic dusts. If people taking vitamin C by mouth are troubled by its acid reaction, he advises them to mix a little bicarbonate of soda with...