Word: shock
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chief of the A.E.F. in France, the Marshal of France, Commander in Chief of the French Armies of the East, cites to the order of the Army: 'The 3713! R.I.U.S. Has shown, during its first engagement the very best qualities of bravery and audacity which are characteristic of shock troops...
...Viva Almazán!" and pelted them with stones. Firearms went into action, killing two and wounding seven. The peons were in a gay mood. Some of them did not know that a new Government Congress was to be installed next day and that they were to serve as shock troops should the numerous followers of defeated Candidate Juan Andreu Almazán attempt to interfere...
After the Jolt, Yosuke Matsuoka quickly rebounded, confident that he was the man to straighten things out. He has not felt many twinges of modesty in his 60 years. Urbane, roly-poly, positive as an electric shock, with a flair for guessing what others are thinking and hiding what he is, Yosuke Matsuoka is ideally suited to ride the second biggest saddle in a near-totalitarian regime. In his own person he symbolizes the collapse of the ideal of collective security: it was he who, with an unlit cigar clenched between his teeth, imperiously beckoned to the Japanese delegates...
...Nothing. The distinction that was made between these visitors was clear, deliberate, sometimes purposely cruel. Only 100% Roosevelt Democrats were welcome. The shock to party oldsters was frightful. Hundreds on hundreds of them went to Chicago personally acquainted with only one nationally-known Democrat, Jim Farley. Now they mobbed Big Jim in elevators, lobbies, on the street, stopping his car, clutching his hands, his clothes, asking him puzzled questions...
...most U. S. citizens last week it was as if a well-loved wife had been unfaithful. The shock was no less because they had expected it. France had been cajoled, betrayed, raped, but what hurt was her final acquiescence. To some it seemed because of that final acquiescence. France, now brazenly fascist, must always have been unfaithful to democracy at heart...