Word: shocked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...instructor had a shock several weeks ago when, after dismissing his class, he walked into the hall, looked into another classroom and saw Bob's alter ego reciting. The teacher "swore off" for a few days...
...politicos got a shock: Tom Dewey, a cool politician, appeared to have outsmarted himself. He had played coy a little too long. Six months ago, he was first told of plans to enter a slate of Dewey-pledged delegates in Wisconsin's Presidential primary. Last week, before Wendell Willkie announced that he would stump the state in person, the New York Governor could have withdrawn his name and maintained intact his pose of aloofness to party leadership. But the Dewey delegates, though forewarned of his intentions, had filed their entries last week before Dewey released the news that...
...intend to remain there, dark outlook or no. As their postwar project No. 1, they plan to plunk their savings into buying a house or land. To help provide jobs, Portland is already planning a grandiose $75,000,000 public works project. On this, proud Portlandians got another shock. Half the workers had never heard of the project...
...Beside him sits a little man with dull, lustful eyes, abnormally high cheekbones, and an enormous shock of brown hair. Legally he is a Russian but the face is oriental. He is a Mongol of the easternmost end of Asia...
...young man, he was sent to school at Rome. But Rome's licentiousness shocked him as it was to shock Martin Luther ten centuries later. St. Benedict fled into the bleak wastes of the Abruzzi. Later he went to the ruins of Nero's villa near Anzio. In the rocks opposite the ruins he found a cave, where he lived forgotten by the crumbling world...