Word: shocked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...into a big, rambling home in Hollywood. There he sat last week, in U.S. clothes but wearing a black skull cap, peacefully smoking a pipe. Two of Genzo's six sons are in the Army. But Son Isamu Horino, 26, is a tough, wiry Nisei boy with a shock of unkempt hair and a stubborn jaw. He never did like the way white citizens treated him. (But he went to school in Japan for a while, did not like the way yellow men treated him either.) Rebel Isamu decided a few years ago to make a lot of money...
Chinese forces, described in London dispatches as "shock troops" armed with American lend-lease equipment, were moving into southeast Burma, where a major battle was expected in the region of Toungoo, on the Rangoon-Mandalay communications line...
...death of Professor Weiss came as a shock to the staff and students of the Medical School, who remembered his strong personality and boundless energy. At 43 he had established a long record of medical achievements...
...proud that it has fallen to our lot to smash Hitler's war machine, but we by no means insist on exclusive rights. . . ." U.S. Answer. Maxim Litvinoff's nation, alone among the Allies, had taken the full shock of the Nazi machine. He feared that his nation would be alone again when spring brought a new German attack...
...plan. Its execution would not be so simple. The Dutch had a mobile Army of perhaps 50,000 well-armed white and brown troops, 50,-ooo not so well armed. "Some thousands" of Australian, British and U.S. soldiers were on the island, and probably were held for last-ditch shock attack. Short of artillery, short even of ammunition for the various calibers of Dutch, U.S., British, Swedish, German and Italian rifles, pistols and machine guns, the Dutch ordnance men had made much out of little. They juggled rifle parts to fit their ammunition supply. For armored cars, they walled trucks...