Word: shocked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Germans, the authors of blitzes, could not understand a blitz in reverse. The quick push on Tunis, though it was the obvious move, gave the enemy a shock greater than that of all our shells and bombs...
From that shock the Germans and Italians never recovered. Their commanders undoubtedly had foreseen the fall of Tunis. Nevertheless they failed to appreciate what a little blitz of 40 miles would do to their own armies. Psychologically, they broke down...
Tank Surplus? After the shock wore off, businessmen wondered why, then, they had seen plants standing idle. So did civilians who have passed enormous army dumps jammed wheel to wheel with trucks, have seen massed fields of hundreds of tanks. Army Ordnance itself has even complained of a big tank surplus at Chester, Pa. Statisticians recalled further that the cutback of a "few facilities" totaled around...
...Strugglers. Kootz whales away at surrealism in general as "an aspect of frustration" and evidence of "the decay of France." He admires the earlier work of Giorgio di Chirico. But of Salvador Dali he says: ". . . Each new showing evidences an hysterical attempt to provide the spectator with a different shock than that of the preceding exhibit." Of a Max Ernst show in 1941 he remarks: "Here, just the right amount of peep-show pornography ... to provide final fashionable acceptance to an audience thrilled by its chichi eroticism...
...protect Army & Navy fur-lined flying suits from moths, Westinghouse has installed refrigeration equipment in storerooms at airports. The moths are killed by a shock cycle which plunges temperatures to -17°F., then warms up to 50°F. Surviving eggs are hatched by heat, the larvae destroyed by a second below-zero treatment...