Word: shock
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Blast Shock. Last week Professor Einstein seemed suffering from blast shock from the bomb he had fathered. In the New York Times he warned Americans that "There is no foreseeable defense against atomic bombs. . . . Scientists do not even know of any field which promises us any hope of adequate defense." The Emergency Committee of Atomic Scientists, of which Einstein is chairman, frantically appealed for $200,000 to educate people to "a new type of thinking ... if mankind is to survive and move toward a higher level...
...Insulin shock, already used to snap schizophrenics and morphine addicts back to normal, may be a cure for bronchial asthma. In the current British Medical Journal, Dr. Z. Godlowski of the Polish Medical School in Edinburgh reports seven out of eight successes...
...series of paroxysms, seven found "complete disappearance of symptoms to the present time-i.e., from eight months to 2% years." The eighth was relieved for five months, then relapsed. All the cured asthmatics were allergy victims (cases of non-allergic asthma were not helped at all by shock...
Probable explanation of the cure: the shock permanently increases the output and even the size of the adrenal glands, pouring greater amounts of adrenaline into the patient's blood to relax his constricted bronchial muscles...
TIME (May 27) says Barbara Button's shorts would shock the President of France. LIFE the same day says it was the King of Cambodia...