Word: shock
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first reaction to the war's end was otherwise. Like torrents freed by the sudden thawing of some great northern river, the peace let loose a worldwide flood of emotions - sorrow, anger, fear, pride, guilt, frustration, shock, hatred. On the one side, tearful Finns quoted an old Nordic saying: "Sorrows are our reins, bad days our bridle." On the other, the Russians laughed, drank beer, slapped each other's backs, praised their Red Army "defenders." But among the friends and foes of each side there was a bitter search for reasons, a hunt for scapegoats, a vindictive beating...
...urge which drives slight, bespectacled Lecturer Knickerbocker, with his shock of wavy, flame-red hair (balding on top), is his belief that this is very much a U. S. war. He makes no secret of his Franco-British sympathies, believes the war may last six years or longer, end in a Soviet Europe. In his first lectures he called for outright U. S. intervention. Now he no longer flatly advocates intervention in his lecture; but in the question period that follows, he generally makes his conviction amply clear. So far he has told an estimated 70,000 people his belief...
...Sundays ago Friend Walter Winchell twanged over the radio: "The Federal Bureau of Investigation G-Men swung into action at daybreak and arrested over 30 people in the Federal drive against Miami vice and white slavery. The higher-ups who will be named eventually will shock the State of Florida...
...deep rich colors--deep and rich as the music which poured from their willowy f holes. Vag thought of the man who had made them, Stradivarius, the wizardry master of Cremona. Somehow, he pictured him as looking like Pinnochio's Geppetto--small and wizened, with a rapidly thinning shock of white hair, bright rabbit-like eyes, wire-rimmed glasses set on the end of a very sharp nose, and a brown wart with two grey hairs protruding from the end of a long, sharp chin--Vag was very certain of the wart...
...great and still disgust by its ugliness. Its attraction is the attraction of evil. Its entertainment is that of waiting and hoping for good. And therein is the great artistry of Miss Hellman. "The Little Foxes" is brutal and overpowering. It forces submission. Only as the first shock wears off and the nasty details fade away does the immensity of the stated truth begin to emerge. That is Miss Hellman's real message of hope. The brittle clearness of reality--the strength to examine life and admit some of its fallacies--is an immense satisfaction...