Word: shocked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years of journalism, 100 days awaiting execution in a Franco prison, six years of watching prewar Leftism crumble under the shock of totalitarian war, Hungarian-born Author Arthur Koestler (Darkness at Noon) has learned to lift himself above the battle. Last week in the New York Times, he wrote that the great events of today are only events in an "interregnum," that an age is dying. Said Koestler...
Honesty and Fuzzy Focus. In the course of this film, fear, combat shock, trickery and brutality on both sides are shown more frankly, with less cinematic salad dressing, than in any U.S. film to date. Yet Guadalcanal Diary must be counted as much a failure as a success...
...gallant ride, but he learned how to make and roll copper and brass (British monopolists thought they had that essential art sewed up) and he pioneered the theory that high wages mean high production and profits. The $2 a day he paid his workmen was infinitely more of a shock than Henry Ford...
This proposal may well shock rugged, shell-backed shipping men who cherish the tradition of freedom of the seas. But to owners abroad who have lost most of their prewar vessels, Land's proposal made sense...
Thus the glee with which the furious little fringe of isolationists seized on the Senatorial remarks as anti-Allied was as misplaced as was the Administration's feeble efforts to keep the lid on their criticisms, or as beside the point as the shock felt in London...