Word: shocked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ankara reported vast German concentrations along the Eastern Front, predicted unprecedented carnage. The Russians, again on the defensive after their winter drives, brought up Siberian reserves, braced themselves for the shock of yet another great German offensive. Moscow showed confidence, but no complacency. Pravda remarked soberly that although the Luftwaffe had lost 5,090 planes during the winter, still "the enemy's air fleet is very strong and a potent weapon in the hands of the German command...
...first shock of the Doolittle raid was tremendous, but the effect soon passed and the Tokyo Government turned the aftermath to good account in Japan. Anti aircraft defenses were reorganized, and a great campaign was launched to stimulate public air raid precautions. The Govern ment even distributed copies of LIFE maps of Japan, to remind the Japanese that the enemy knew where to strike...
...intervention in Spain. Later "he was willing ... to work with the extreme Left if necessary to defeat the paramount enemy." Sheean was able to watch Churchill's mind at close quarters during "the precise years in which he was traversing this immense ideological area." Sheean once heard Churchill shock the Duke of Windsor by urging a British alliance with Russia. The "self-willed, pleasure-loving little Prince" said: "You of all people, Winston!" Winston replied: "Sir, I would make a friend of the devil himself, if it would save England...
...past experiences this postwar period of prosperity will end in a depression unless we adopt a positive program to maintain full employment. This is the great new field of economic statesmanship. Our modern highly urbanized, highly industrialized sections can no longer stand the social strain and economic shock of great depressions...
Rommel, who is never blind, sensed the move and shifted a Panzer division to El Hamma. The flankers, men whom Montgomery had used before for shock jobs-the 2nd New Zealanders under Lieut. General Sir Bernard C. Freyberg-drew themselves up for attack. Then, on a Friday afternoon at 4 p.m., came a violent and perfect expression of the use of tactical air force...