Word: shocked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...world for the loss of its titular head. But there had been more time than that. When Edsel Ford underwent a major operation 16 months ago, he must have known his days were numbered. But were even 16 months time enough to adjust the empire to the shock...
...shock of Edsel's death, the plight of the empire will still be critical. It may not stand the shock of another death. Average U.S. life expectancy is 61 years; Henry Ford...
...United Nations' shameful failure to realize the intimate connection between their fate and that of a ravaged Manchurian hut in 1931. There is also a 1939 newsreel, a poll of man-in-the-street views on U.S. intervention: the confused statements and blank, well-meaning faces have a shock value that is startling...
...Churchill's greatest speeches, though any other orator might well have envied it. His courage and his eloquence shine brightest in adversity. When he first appeared before Congress, on Dec. 26, 1941, Allied prospects were dim and the U.S. was reeling under the first shock of war. Then, speaking from manuscript, he tingled flesh and tightened throats with the indomitable defiance of his ringing phrases...
Just eight years after he split American labor wide open by founding the revolutionary C.I.O., Lewis asked that he and his 600,000 miners be taken back into the older and more conservative American Federation of Labor. The news came as a mighty shock to millions : What was John Lewis up to now? The move was the result of secret negotiations, mainly between Lewis and big Bill Hutcheson, head of the Carpenters' Union, who once called Lewis a big bastard and was forthwith knocked flat. And the announcement came, fittingly enough, from the lips of pious-faced Bill Green...