Word: shocked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...disruption of the pendulum movement was less real because "American conservatism is a powerful shock absorber." Rightly or wrongly, Author de Sales believes that the third-term election of Franklin Roosevelt "had two important consequences: on the vertical plane-that is, nationally-the American electorate expressed its willingness to play a part, at least temporarily, in world affairs. . . . On the horizontal plane it recognized the implications of the revolutionary forces and their possible effect on the evolution of American democracy...
...Englanders, who naturally believe that their scions are bigger if not better men than their fathers, got a shock last week. According to an Army stature chart, bona fide Yanks are the smallest men in today's Army, said Major George D. Williams of the Surgeon General's office. The average New England height has been pulled down by the many short-statured descendants of French-Canadian and Polish settlers...
...poem, ballet, vaudeville, dream and relaxed ad-libbing. At their worst they contain, as Saroyan confesses, "careless and cheap feelings . . . cleverness and petty bitterness, spoofing and kidding, vulgarity here and there perhaps. . . ." At their best they meet Saroyan's requirements for art: "The surprise of art is not shock, but wonder. . . . The excitement it creates is not that of fear or loathing or irritation, but the excitement of revelation, understanding, love, and delight." Now & then Saroyan's spontaneity has the revelatory abruptness of a magnesium flare...
...move was one of potentially vast scope: it meant, if carried all the way through, a shake-up of U.S. life so deep, so wide, so far-reaching it could not yet be grasped. It might take another year or more of total war to bring the earthquake shock full home...
...there was to be only the quick shock of spring. For the lieutenants, for the corporals, there was not even certainty as to what bitter job would have to be done. They could only guess: southern Russia, probably, between Orel and the Crimea, logically, a drive for oil and toward India. Most of the reinforcements were pouring into that sector. Only the Führer and his intimates could say when the drive would begin. The Russians were putting on one last effort to take the German key points; they were attacking all along the line, but especially...