Word: shocked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pulled myself up and looked at the Eagle, 200 yards away. She was lying on her side. Down the great red expanse of her underside, men were sliding into the sea. Suddenly I felt a shock at the base of my spine. I knew it was a depth charge from a destroyer hunting the U-boat." Clinging to the float with other survivors, Thorpe watched the stricken Eagle go. "A rumbling as the sea poured relentlessly into the vessel . . . a flurry of white foam. It subsided and she was gone." A destroyer's crew plucked Thorpe...
...other braintrusters who are planning to prevent any post-war depression by bigger and better deficits. It may have cheered the National Association of Manufacturers, who have not heard the President promise to balance the budget for a long time, but it must have been a shock to those businessmen who still realize that rapid retirement of billions of dollars of debt would be deflationary. Has not every great war been followed by a depression? It must also have been discouraging to those who realize that such punitive taxes on business as are now being levied are almost sure...
...Caucasus, that Timoshenko's main strength was apparently concentrated in a vast arc before Stalingrad, that German positions along the Don at Voronezh were safe for the moment. Bock might be on the threshold of an even greater victory. He could look with satisfaction on what his Panzers, shock troops, snub-nosed caterpillar guns and rank-on-rank of efficient infantrymen had achieved. He could look with hawk-eyed anticipation at the mighty Volga, throbbing artery that pumps the heart of Russia, almost within his grasp. With brains and reasonable luck he might sever that artery by autumn...
...secret of the pickup's success is a reel which relieves the plane and glider of sudden starting shock, and smoothly eases the load into the air. Even the towrope is of stretchy nylon. One plane can accumulate a glider train by successive passes at the uprights. Each glider has its separate rope, snubbed individually at varying lengths, to the tow plane's tail...
Coverage. In Tulsa, a bolt of lightning struck near the Walter Grubb house, gave Mrs. Grubb a shock; a mile to the west, a bolt of lightning struck a telephone pole, narrowly missed Son Lloyd Grubb; seven miles from Tulsa, a bolt of lightning struck near Father Walter Grubb, gave him a shock...