Word: shocked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Riviera, immersed himself in the Cistercian routine. He rose at 2 a.m. for the night offices in the Abbey's austere white chapel. He assisted at Matins, Lauds, Prime Terce, High Mass, Nones, Vespers, Complin. Among white-habited monks he worked on the farm, helping to cut and shock corn. He watched the monks weave cloth, bake bread, bind manuscripts, work at sculpture and wood carving. He shared their single daily vegetarian meal...
...announcement came as no total shock to University Hall as the Dean's Office had long recognized the extent of the nation's manpower needs. A general fear was expressed, however, that the ambiguous generalities of the statement would encourage undergraduates to leave College without careful consideration...
...rich man's son: his father invented a high-speed oil drill, left a multimillion-dollar fortune. But Howard Hughes has never coasted on his inheritance. He showed a technician's touch even in boyhood, built his own motorcycle and radio set, invented a pretty good shock absorber, got admitted to California Institute of Technology for special courses before he was old enough to enroll as a regular student...
...American consumer, addicted for years to swearing by Camay, Camels, and Camphor, Ice, is in for a rude shock. His favorite brands may soon disappear from the market if the plans of WPB for concentrating civilian production in a few "nuclear" plants is adopted. Worried by the wastefulness of permitting every factory in an industry to spend most of its energies on war production and some of it in supplying civil markets, the concentration committee is drafting a program to allocate all non-essential production to a few plants which will give it their full attention. Brand-names and trademarks...
...Capitol, bright and solid in the clear, pale noonday sun. . . . Yet the face of every individual, the faces of all those huddled over the radios, were turned directly toward the towering pillars of the Capitol. There was a churchlike hush, a sullen, angry silence. . . . What was the silence of shock last night, today was the cold, determined hatred of an outraged people. There was something of the tension of a lynching mob, a mob where there are no masks, where each individual is happy to be identified with the purpose of the assembly...