Word: shocked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...climb grew very steep and we were all quiet. Wounds began to hurt and shock began to set in seriously. The sergeant moaned: "Doc, can't you keep my leg straight...
...Wrote the Stockholm Dagens Nyheter's Berlin correspondent: "Nobody could deny that it is the biggest shock of this war for the Germans...
...evening came the volunteer "work corps" helpers, mostly agriculture teachers from the University of Nebraska. They tramped through the dusty grain, stacking the oats six bundles to the shock...
...ship stood off Gela, a soiled town on a blue bay, the main initial objective of the U.S. troops. Against Gela and its environs had been thrown a great weight of naval shells and aerial bombs. Against Gela, now, were sent crack troops of the Seventh Army: first a shock battalion of Commando-trained Rangers under Lieut. Colonel William O. Darby, who was to do brave things, and Major General Terry de la Mesa Allen's tried-&-proved 1st Division...
Most of the battalion's anti-tank guns had not come up. Under the first shock, it had to retreat from hill to hill, toward the sea. The battalion commander, trying to pull his companies together at the height of the German attack, was wounded. His executive officer, a young captain, had to take over. Upon him, for a tense while, the fate of the U.S. invasion rested...