Word: shock
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...stomach. The medics had not yet arrived, so soldiers were bandaging wounds themselves. I noticed the chaplain trying to comfort the dozen or so who had been wounded. Sergeants were shouting orders to form a security perimeter. Some of the younger soldiers were looking on in a state of shock and had to be hand-led to their positions. Fifteen minutes later an ambulance drove up to take away the badly wounded soldiers. One died soon after...
...Multiple Iraqis in the quarry with weapons," said the voice over the radio, "and they're not surrendering." It's Friday afternoon at 4 p.m., Day One of "shock and awe." For hours I have traveled north across the desert with the Marines of the 3rd Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division. Packed tightly into an amphibious assault vehicle--Marines call it an Amtrak--we head toward our destination, just outside the strategic city of Basra in southern Iraq. The mission will be to cut off troops of the Iraqi army's 51st Division. But first we found ourselves...
...Most of the Western actors and crew had never visited Cambodia before and the culture shock was considerable. "The mosquitoes were as big as Buicks," recalls Caan. "When I first got to Phnom Penh, I saw whole families riding single mopeds on streets with no lanes. There were kids laying in the mud, people walking around with missing limbs. If you take a sip of the water, you're in the hospital. We're so frigging spoiled in the U.S.?people complain about being born in Brooklyn or Watts, but this gave me a whole new perspective on things...
...appropriateness” was easy—we continued attending middle school. This war is particularly surreal: outside of the newspapers, it is rather hard to believe that a war really is going on. In Cambridge, life, academic or celebratory, has not changed since “Shock and Awe” began, aside from regular skepticism on who came up with that title, and NPR’s new “Special Coverage” programming around the clock. Many students do not know anyone who is fighting; to much of the student body (though not all), Army...
...read the initial reports on the attack on these pages with great interest and some shock. To someone who owns three Sopranos DVD sets, crew captain Michael Skey’s comment that “Apparently, [Howard] took a slip on the ice,” sounded strongly reminiscent of some of Season 2’s better moments...