Word: shock
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Roosevelt was in a jubilant mood as he received reporters for his press conference one day last week. Chuckling as he read from a memorandum written by Economic Adviser Lauchlin Currie-occasionally remarking: "The Republicans will have a hard time answering that one." "This will come as quite a shock to some people"-he listed several highly mathematical reasons why the U. S. is not going broke. He repeated one of them three times, not from the memo but from memory. As unanimously reported by the correspondents present it ran: From 1932 to 1939, decreases in State, county and local...
...inquiry-i.e., by-line exposés and rascal-kicking-The Nation proudly printed a message from Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Wrote the President: "I think no one would ever accuse The Nation of seeking to become a popular organ. . . ." But Founder Godkin would have suffered a severe shock could he have seen last week how far The Nation had gone along the road on which he started it. For Godkin's politics were fairly spongy compared to The Nation's present devout and single-minded Leftism...
...seen fit to bill "The Earl of Chicago" second to Nelson Eddy and Ilona Massey in "Balalaika," it is the Robert Montgomery vehicle which makes the evening worth while. Bob forsakes his debonair Piccadilly Jim pose and goes to town with a portrayal of the shock effect of English upper class mores upon a typical Chicago, gangster...
...Japanese do not easily give up a notion once they get it in their heads. Last week they had quite a shock to discover that a 90-year-old notion was no longer true...
...Leonard Lockhart had been a soldier on the Western Front. One summer's day, after he saw every comrade in his platoon wiped out, he collapsed with "shell shock." Unlike most victims, he pulled himself together and soon returned to the trenches. But several times after the war, when faced by small crises, he completely lost his memory for a few hours...