Word: shocked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Their thick skins are double, with oil compartments between to absorb the shock of depth charges, which must explode within 20 ft. of them to blast open their hides. They can crash dive in seconds, submerge to 100 fathoms (600 ft.), resist with safety the pressure of more than 19 tons per square foot. On the surface they can shoulder through the sea at 20 knots, driven by great 2,800-h.p. diesel engines. On their bows is a quick-firing gun big enough to enable them to engage Allied corvettes in surface action. U-boat production...
...first time I moved with a well-defined sense of hazard. The others, who knew more, had probably felt it all along. . . . You were on the receiving end, and you could not see the thing about to strike you. A few feet farther along I got the shock for which I thought I had braced myself. . . . Just beyond the turn lay a dead Marine. . . . Colonel Frisbie . . . was right...
...Barbary coast pirates who waged a losing war against the U.S. Navy in the early 1800s. Since 1912, when the Italians wrested it from Turkish rule, it had bolstered the Italian ego. Since 1933, when Mussolini began exploiting its riches, it had inflated Italian pride. Losing it was a shock...
...went in at dawn. While a bitter wind swirled the sands of the Sahara the infantry waited in slit trenches for their signal. Faces and clothes were grimed with the dust. They were in full battle kit. Their weapons glinted in the bright sun. These were Montgomery's shock troops. They had done the job before at El Alamein where the long trek had started. They were eager to do it again for the harsh, implacable man whom they adored...
Perhaps some connection might be discovered between this actual provincialism of American education and scholarship a generation age and the shock which we received at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Certainly most of the men in charge of our national affairs today were brought up in that period. An American illustrated paper which appeared three years before Pearl Harbor showed pictures of Japanese soldiers trying their bayonets on bound Chinese soldiers and civilians. Such actions, and indeed the whole attack upon China, were generally condemned, but many of our respectable citizens and responsible officials maintained that what happened...