Word: shocked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...truce was in sight. Best hope for a compromise came on the subsidy issue. Oklahoma's able, shock-haired Mike Monroney proposed an amendment (which showed surprising strength in a House vote) to continue subsidies until Oct. 1, 1944, and to make them revocable at any earlier time at the first sign of a general wage increase. Mike Monroney's solution may yet be adopted. It had virtues: 1) it would tie farm prices and wages together; 2) it would put the subsidy issue squarely into the 1944 campaign, where both Congress and the Administration seem to think...
Some charter members of Post 591: an 18-year-old sailor wounded by shrapnel (South Pacific); a young private with punctured ear drums (North Africa); a paratrooper who injured his back in a practice jump; an ex-National Guardsman suffering from shock and war neurosis; a 45-year-old World War I veteran who was drafted again for World War II and served in a medical battalion until discharged...
...runs only half as much risk of death from disease and wounds as in World War I. One of the great advances has been in the field of blood plasma. Plasma has been split into several useful components: albumins, which proved even better than whole plasma in treating shock; blood-clotting factors (prothrombin and fibrinogen), which look very promising in the treatment of hemorrhage and burns; antibodies, which have been tried as injections against virus diseases, have already worked well in preventing measles...
Wide-Open Wounds. Major Ascroft finds only three valid reasons for treating head-wound cases at the front: 1) severe shock (but "shock is seldom severe in head wounds"), which makes it impossible to move a patient at once; 2) need for immediate surgery to relieve pressure on the brain; 3) no possibility of reaching a base hospital in 72 hours. For such cases he recommends "an operation of expedience"-a cleanup after which the wound is left wide-open, protected only by a plaster-of-paris bandage. A diagram of the wound may be drawn on the bandage...
...house of the conquered). Engineer Aubrey Wall, who will not seduce Gisele, but who kicks an opium-drugged servant to death, is one Englishman for whom the prewar burden of empire was too much. Examining the canals he had built, "his nervous system suffered a kind of accumulated shock, a reverberation of all the disappointments, dreams, hopes, despairs and resignations which had piled up during the year. Now loathing possessed him, loathing for the place, for the climate, for his work which he saw as a mere drop in this bottomless bucket of poverty, superstition and disease. . . . He watched rain...