Word: shocked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Though Harvard's pigskin panzers will swing into gridiron battle against Eli's shock troops tomorrow afternoon, the Red and Blue Glee Clubs are scheduled to join in perfect harmony tonight in Paine Hall at eight-thirty...
BERLIN--German shock troops were reported officially today to have captured Kerch and 101,600 of the Russians defending it, and military spokesmen said the Germans might strike on across the Korchenski Straits into the Caucasus on the momentum of their present drive, without waiting to map up Crimoa...
...game, and destroyed the goalposts. Why the College should sit fatly by and watch the riot, I cannot understand. Could not a couple of hundred students, or police with fire-hose, be mobilized to guard the field and posts? Or could not the posts be electrified so as to shock any who touched them, even to the extent of fixing the touchers to the posts, so that all could be carted down to the River and thrown in? Or perhaps best of all would be to lead tear gas or stink gas to the goal region, so that when...
...unidentified professor remarked, "Who is Professor Burns? Obviously, someone trying to shock school marms." Associate Professor Paul H. Buck commented, "Silly," and Arthur M. Schlesinger, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History, called the speech, "Fantastic...
...meaning of President Roosevelt's recent announcement that the U.S. is going to double its tank program may in a few months hit the U.S. with something of a pleasant shock. The U.S. Army's Armored Force already has two crack divisions in the field, three in training, another about to be organized, plus 15 separate battalions. But it is now obvious that this force, far from being a military sapling, is little more than an acorn...