Word: shocked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After 65 days the Navy had let it be known that three U.S. cruisers had been sunk, taken unawares at night and potted like ducks. The step-by-step victory campaign back up through the Pacific Islands wobbled dangerously on the first step. Then this week came a shock: news (41 days late) of the sinking of another precious aircraft carrier, the Wasp...
Suddenly one lanky Russian seized a tank-mine, hugged it to his chest and threw himself in front of an advancing tank. Three came on. At the apartment-house door they let out their shock troops, who fought their way to the staircase...
When Luftwaffe pilots first met the Fortresses, they had a brutal shock. Used to sitting beyond the short range of .30-caliber guns and potting British bombers with their light aircraft cannon, Messerschmitt and Fw-190 pilots found themselves in heavy fire as they approached the U.S. bombers. For a while U.S. commanders had trouble persuading their gunners to fire when the Germans were many hundreds of yards away: the gunners, unused to their high-velocity, long-range weapons, had been trained to wait too long. But they soon learned better, and Fortresses knocked down at least 48 German fighters...
...bomb exploded in the center' of State Street," Dr. Henry B. Perlman of the University of Chicago told a meeting of ear, eye and throat doctors in Chicago, "85% of the middle-ear injuries would be due to the shock pulse itself, only 15% to bomb fragments. Excluding other injuries, everyone within 50 feet would likely have ruptured eardrums with bleeding from the ear. . . . Among those in stores facing the street within this radius but shielded from the shock pulse by wall, door or partition, only half of i% would have ear injuries...
...with a pistol, a mirror and the small-boned mechanism of a freshly dissected ear (with which he made the first motion pictures ever taken of the human hearing mechanism in action) Dr. Perlman and his associates showed that the ear damage caused by explosions is due to a shock pulse which occurs so swiftly that the normal protective devices of the ear do not have time to work. Their conclusions about how best to save ears from damage by exploding bombs and the firing of big guns...