Word: shocked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Japanese got a mighty shock. Midway was ready. This much the Japanese might have expected: Midway's defending Marines had repulsed five lighter attacks. What the Japanese patently did not expect was the strength of the forces on and around Midway. Marine Corps fighters instantly took the air. On Midway's field were Army bombers, warmed up and ready to track fleeing Japs to their carriers. Anti-aircraft fire blanketed Midway...
Recent generations of Harvard men, who have undergone the orderly graduation from Yard to Houses, will look upon this innovation with far greater shock than will its victims. Should the cause be sought by either, it lies purely and simply in the fact that the Yard is being turned over to the Navy for a Radio Communication School. Gone also for Freshmen will be the Harvard Union, where so many of their forebears have first learned to complain about College food...
...Navy casualty list, published this week, showed that 2,317 Americans had been killed, wounded or missing from April 16 to May 10. To most of the U.S. the curt, dry list of names brought no shock. The war was still far away, bloodless, unreal, fought abroad by unknown...
Since censors have scissored daily weather forecasts out of the newspapers, U.S. citizens have tended to forget their favorite pre-war topic. Last week they learned with a shock that the weather had been worse this spring than in any other spring in 60 years. The American Red Cross let out the news...
Where to Go? Vacationers will find little to do on either coast. The troubled shore waters of the Atlantic are often coated with oil. Bodies wash ashore on beaches often enough to shock swimmers...