Word: shocked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when thousands of lives were lost for lack of fresh whole blood for transfusion, medical men thought most of the deaths were caused by the loss of red blood corpuscles. Later they discovered that the loss of the blood fluid was more serious, that when a patient suffers shock from burns, wounds or hemorrhage, the sluggish blood stream prevents the red corpuscles, even when plenty are left, from taking enough oxygen to the body cells...
Critics of this preponderance have lately become vigorous. Sports Writer Bill Cunningham, discovering daytime radio with a shock, snorted last month in the Boston Herald: "Try driving 400 miles, as I did yesterday, with nothing but the radio for company, and if you don't go nuts between 10 a.m. and sundown, you're tough enough to laugh off anything." Fortnight ago, Fred Allen, with his razor-strop smoothness, put on a savage parody (Clipso, the aristocrat of soap chips, presents Susan Spavin, Girl Sandhog). In Ottawa, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp.'s general manager, W. E. Gladstone...
...this some kind of private war, Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt against Adolf Hitler? Was such a decision indicated by Navy Secretary Knox's sounding off that Hitler was the No. 1 enemy? That would be a shock to U.S. civilians, who had picked the Japanese as their enemy, who were fighting them in bars, on benches,over tables, at their desks, in their armchairs and with their imaginations...
...have been undertaken partly as morale builders, but Haakon VII's German-hating subjects seem sold on the theory that Commando forays are preludes to an Allied invasion of Europe. Norse cooperation with the raiding parties is so flagrant that homes of persons identified with these invading shock troops are burned, their male relatives arrested...
...every 20 or 30 years a quake of tremendous dimensions hits the islands," he said. "That's when the big blowoff comes. The last terrible shock hit Tokyo in 1923, so that from statistics we can be reasonably sure that Japan will suffer another one sometime after...