Word: shocked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...That it is extensive and the largest on record is no tribute to its name. A country that sets for itself the double goal of developing into a world arsenal and defending itself from two relentless enemies needs maximum financial support if the home front is to withstand the shock and the arsenal to become a reality. The trouble is the measure is not strong enough. The Congress after seven months of dilly-dallying and haggling has given the country a half-baked, business as usual, partisan tax bill, and this after eleven months of global...
Forgotten were the ill tempers of the first day at his desk (TIME, Oct. 12), when the shock of returning from the open spaces to bureau-cramped Washington led the President to lash at Congress, the press and his own officials. Only for the press and radio did he reserve a few lingering words of sarcasm: "I can say one thing about our [military] plans: they are not being decided by the typewriter strategists. . . ." He served notice that his future trips would be veiled in the same censorship which the press had objected to in this...
...shock of Dunkirk, the draft of 1940, the muddled rush to house the new army for its first winter, the first flow of the young men from their homes, schools, farms, jobs, into a peace time army whose reason for being was far from plain to many of its recruits?of all these things, and more, the army was born. There were the months when OHIO, chalked on latrine walls, meant "over the hill in October," and many of the young men cursed George Marshall, the President, the Congress which (by a House vote of 203-to-202) extended their...
...question is whether Americans like Paul McNutt, and American families like his, have the will to see a tough war through. Britain's will was prepared for the drafting of all war manpower by the shock of Dunkirk. In this war it may be that nations have the choice of steeling themselves to hard decisions in order to avoid disaster or being steeled when Dunkirks give them the willpower...
Marines take it all with sardonic cheerfulness, with a smile or wisecrack. When the Japanese fail to provide excitement Mother Nature steps in. Last night there was an earthquake shock to spice the routine...