Word: shocked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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LONDON--Russian tanks and infantry shock troops, fighting their way into the strong, deep main German defense system before Smolenzk, have smashed a series of enemy pill boxes and captured three inhabited places, the Soviets Monday midnight communique said today...
Eckstein recommends that the biggest possible soldiers be sent against the Japanese, in the most impressive possible mass. He warns against trying to use small men subtly, in the enemy's manner. He thinks that the talents born of Japanese smallness might be paralyzed by pure size and shock. But if Americans tried to beat them at their own game they would not only fail; they would also intensify Japanese scorn. On the whole, however, Eckstein is content to leave the winning of the war to warriors...
...this time I was conscious, though becoming drowsy as a result of the ether cleansing. The instant the shock button was pressed I lost consciousness. The next thing I knew was that I was lying in a cubicle with my escort sitting beside me. . . . For some minutes I could not remember where I was or that I had had the treatment. Gradually memory and mental clarity returned...
Advertising, the vital $450,000,000-a-year industry which sparks most other industries and pumps lifeblood into the nation's press, had great trouble converting itself to war. In the first shock of conversion-as happened in many of the industries it represents-much advertising was terrible: hysterical, ridiculous, extreme. But U.S. advertising, whose virtues are seldom praised outside its own precincts, has so successfully weathered the crisis that by last week much of it had reached new high standards...
...lost generation,' men who go to college for the deb parties and social prestige of a Harvard education, will probably not be affected by the war, Allport reported. Before the war or after, college will still be a pleasant waste of time, and no amount of shell-shock can change this attitude...