Word: shocked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Eugene A. Stead, Jr., for an investigation on circulatory collapse and shock...
Morale. The Germans had another victory, perhaps dampened by their losses. The British had had their worst shock since Dunkirk. But neither may have as much effect on the fortunes of the war as the encouragement which the German victory gave Spain and Vichy to aid the Axis, as the alarm which may lead Turkey to give in instead of fighting...
...Ossipee earthquake, the center of disturbance was 21 miles below the surface, and the quake came as a result of a sudden break in the rock. The second shock at Lake Ossipee was probably due to a gigantic underground rebound from the first, Dr. Leet said...
Hardest hit was the tropical city of Colima (pop. 20,000) in the foothills near the coast. At the first shock the dam guarding Colima's water supply collapsed, power lines went down, communications were cut off. Half the buildings in Colima crumbled into dust. The cathedral, rebuilt after the quake that struck Colima in 1932, was destroyed again. That night Colima was lighted up by the dull glow of forest fires, touched off by the city's charcoal-burning dumps when panic-stricken workers abandoned them...
...United States, according to Hopper, is a completely bewildered country, every person possessing his own fears. America, he said, needs an "electric shock, a shock that will unite it behind a single cause. Only when America becomes frightened will there be an effort toward unity...