Word: shocked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have had a de facto military alliance with Great Britain practically ever since the War of 1812. In the two principal cases since, when war was made on Britain, we went to her defense....The American people never before had such a shock as the one they had when they realized that Germany might capture the British fleet. You in this room remember as well as I do how everyone was chilled...
Company Easy, small but select, finds itself deep in the heart of Harvard. Coming into this sanctum of erudition from culturally sterile waste lands ranging from Chicago to the South Pacific was quite a shock...
...Phantom of the Opera (Universal) contains more opera than phantom, more trills than thrills. In this it differs from the original Phantom, which Universal produced in the shock-absorbing '20s as a shivery vehicle for the late multiform Lon Chaney. The 1943 Phantom is bantam-sized Claude Rains, who attempts to terrify by sheer force of character, scar tissue and Technicolor. Scuttling about in a robin's-egg blue mask, Cinemactor Rains scares nobody but his fellow cinemactors...
Fellow defense wardens expressed shock. Playwright Anderson then unburdened himself in verse...
...settled look. Italian prisoners have installed running water and some of the other comforts of home. The pharmacy hands out prescriptions and runs a blood bank (plasma is not enough for some cases with great blood loss, and the Evac stores whole blood bled from its own personnel). The shock tents give transfusions, prepare men for operations; the operating tent can handle 16 cases an hour around the clock. The dentistry tent with three chairs was for a long time the only place in North Africa where U.S. servicemen could get false teeth...