Word: shocked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Novel as this request was, it failed to shock his colleagues who knew that only a few days previous Matthew Anthony Dunn had introduced a bill, solemnly referred to the Ways & Means Committee, to appropriate money to be expended within ten years "to furnish employment and to end poverty in the United States and its possessions." His proposed appropriation...
...raid had also netted three Hotchkiss machine guns and 71 automatic rifles, but these cases contained hand grenades. The firing lever of each grenade was held down by a band of paper. Since many were damp, the paper bands seemed likely to break at the slightest shock...
After 18 months of shellfire, nervous shock, cold, and no peanuts at all, Pancho the elephant, largest and most inedible survivor of Madrid's El Retire Park Zoo, last week closed his little eyes and died of malnutrition. Next day the Leftist Govern-ment in Barcelona made a move it had threatened for over a year. To solve the food problem in Madrid, it ordered that all civilians not engaged in necessary war work must leave that city within 30 days or be evacuated, "by force if necessary." The necessity of using force seemed remote, for the Government...
...brooded for 40 minutes, then decided not to accept the sacrifice. The move he made instead was a bad one. Dr. Alekhine won the sixth game, and Dr. Euwe's intellectual processes were disrupted. He lost three of the next four games before he recovered from the shock of that one intellectual ambuscade...
...best kind of skin graft which grows on denuded flesh is skin taken from some other part of the same body. Clara Howard, however, cannot endure the further shock of such autogenous grafting from her unburned legs. So Professor Robert Emmet Moran of Georgetown University undertook something utterly new in restorative surgery...