Word: shocked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mama Boys' who in peacetime (when there is no selective service) choose invariably the Navy and find that, though the sea may be 'Mama,' the Navy is definitely 'Papa, and blow up promptly in the training station with the shock of the discovery...
Washington kept its fingers crossed. The U.S., still getting used to the shock of being at war, held its hope in check, like a wish that might be lost if it were spoken aloud. But all eyes were on the summer and the new hope: the nation would at least...
...Italian people, said Matthews, have been shocked out of the complacency with which they entered war against Britain. Greatest shock has been the sell-out of all the fine-sounding ideals with which Benito Mussolini once used to charm his people. The most powerful men in the country are the great industrialists who run the Fiat (autos, armaments), Montecatini (mining and chemicals) and Snia Viscosa (ersatz textiles) monopolies. Along with them has been created a new class of wealthy men in high Government office. Italian peasants, remembering Mussolini's attacks on Democratic plutocrats (men who grew powerful through wealth...
...language most lawyers use might just as well be written in Sanskrit, so far as the layman is concerned. But no man, no matter how lay, would have trouble understanding the language of Lawyer Richard Knight. Socialite Knight, who used to shock friends and intoxicate New York tabloid readers by such didos as kicking out taxicab windows and standing on his head at a Metropolitan Opera opening, who for years has swung a legal tomahawk around New York courts, terrifying lawyers and citizens alike, has devoted himself during the past two years to writing. He writes a simple, direct, Elizabethan...
...Surprise packages, each 47 inches by 23 by 15, weighing 250 pounds, going soon to the troops abroad. Into these weatherproof, shock-absorbing cases the Army packs a long-and short-wave receiving set, a phonograph turntable, 50 phonograph records, 25 half-hour transcriptions of top network commercial programs, a collection of songbooks, several harmonicas, 100 paperbound volumes of recent fiction, spare batteries and tubes...