Word: shock
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...locked up in foreign ports, unless they expect that war is close at hand. In Washington the rumor was rife that the Axis was preparing to declare war on the U. S. Yet to many Americans the news of sabotage and seizure seemed not to come as a great shock, or as a fearsome step toward war, but with the feeling "It's about time...
...anyone who left Gone With the Wind believing that Vivien Leigh was an accomplished actress, That Hamilton Woman will come as a nasty shock. While undemonstrative Husband Olivier mumbles his lines in his gullet or grimaces slightly to keep pace with his blind eye and scarred forehead. Miss Leigh changes the key completely by winking, pouting and fanning the air like a signalman. Her dramatic progress has left her only a gender's distance from Mickey Rooney. The picture provides the sort of lethargic Mother Goose history which does not make movies, just monumental boredom...
...their defense, $250,000 was raised, charges of frame-up roared through innumerable demonstrations, Clarence Darrow was rushed to Los Angeles to defend them, Muckraker Lincoln Steffens busied himself trying to work out a compromise. Suddenly, on Dec. 1, 1911, James McNamara confessed. It was the greatest moral shock in U. S. labor history. A thin-faced, impassioned man, with intense blue eyes and a Theodore Roosevelt mustache, McNamara told reporters: "They say I will swing for this, but if I swing it will be for a principle. ... I am guilty, but I did what I did for principle...
Williams, Hansen and Harris took the position that the cessation of United States armament outlays would constitute a severe shock to the economy after the European war was ended. The best way to mitigate the shock would be for the Government to embark on a program of directed, controlled deficit financing. During the armament boom, the national debt can be expected to rise, but this fact should not be permitted to interfere with rational methods of dealing with a possible post-war depression...
Benito Mussolini was speaking, and he was in good form. "I have come to look you in the eye," he said, "and to take your temperature and to break my silence, dear to me especially in wartime." This was his first speech since Nov. 18, when the first shock of terrible Greek counter-attacks had undermined Italian morale. That day he promised grimly: "We shall break Greece's back; whether in two months or twelve months, it little matters...