Word: shocked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lose this war right here at home thinking it's almost over. I'm against censorship. Tell the people the truth. They've got to know how tough it is, anyhow. . . . This country is in for a shock. . . . The war hasn't even started. Wait until Germany and Japan begin fighting on their own soil...
...Year's Day, 1941, when the blitz against London was in full swing, Adolf Hitler predicted: "The year will bring the completion of the greatest victory in our history." A year later, while the U.S. was still reeling from the shock of Pearl Harbor, the Führer said: "1942 will bring the decision for the salvation of our nation. . . ." Last year he cried: "The day will come when one of the contending parties in this struggle will. collapse. It will not be Germany." As 1944 opened he said: "In this war there will be no victors...
Death Revealed. The New Deal, 10, after long illness; of malnutrition and desuetude. Child of the 1932 election campaign, the New Deal had four healthy years, began to suffer from spots before the eyes in 1937, and never recovered from the shock of war. Last week its father, Franklin Roosevelt, pronounced it dead...
Grancsay had his armorers hammer out their steel in a crowded Museum basement. The end product is a suit of plates attached to each other by shock cords and springs and equipped with an instantaneous release (for quick shedding when parachutes are the thing to wear...
Lieut. General Patton slaps and abuses a private suffering from shock-he is "severely reprimanded" for doing...