Word: shock
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...order stout resistance. A band of 135 Finnish war veterans-volunteer Swedes and Finns as well as Norwegians-stood a desperate six-hour siege. They manned even an old muzzle-loading cannon, which recoiled 18 feet and had to be hauled back into place after every shot. Nazi shock troopers finally blasted them out with mortars and flame...
Although the Times could still be whimsical about it, Major Vidkun Quisling's treachery in hamstringing Norse defenses the week before gave Europe a first-rate shock. "QUISLINGS EVERYWHERE," headlined the London Times, while all over the Continent governments went hunting for those malcontents in their midst who might open the gates to the enemy...
...King Christian's younger brother's capital, 300 miles northward, the Nazis' arrival in Oslo streets was also taken calmly by the populace. But this populace was puzzled, incredulous, as 1,500 shock-troopers, hard-looking but amiable enough, only a few of them gripping their automatic weapons, took possession of a city of 250,000 with scarcely a finger raised against them, even with a city police escort. Correspondent Leland Stowe of the Chicago Daily News was the first outsider on the spot to figure out one of the darkest inside jobs ever perpetrated...
...population by incessantly roaring low over the rooftops, and 200 big Junkers 52s were shuttling over on schedule every half-hour, each bringing 20 more fully armed men each trip, it didn't much matter if the people found out what went on. In four busses, 200 shock troopers were sent to find King Haakon and the Royal Norwegian Government, which had fled Oslo at Tuesday's dawn. The invading high command, headed by General Nikolaus von Falkenhorst, who arrived by airplane, wanted the King to recognize Nazi Quisling as Premier, succeeding Laborite Premier Johan Nygaardsvold (who used...
...slowly dripping its weaker relative, mapharsen, into the bloodstream for eight hours a day, Drs. Hyman and Leifer and the third associate, Dr. Louis Chargin, eliminate the "shock" of relatively large injections, build up blood tolerance to huge concentrations of the essential arsenic. During a five-day treatment, a patient absorbs about two and a half gallons of mapharsen solution...