Word: shocked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Registry Office to marry Miss Mendl. She turned up in silver fox and orchids, wearing a diamond brooch in which the Crown of Johore was flanked by the Sultan's crest, two tiger claws. Wailed the parents of never-married Miss Hill, "It has come as a great shock...
...show itself, great tribute was paid to the Carnegie Director of Fine Arts Homer Saint-Gaudens, distinguished-looking under his shock of grey hair and the burden of his sculptor father's great name. Assistant Director John O'Connor Jr. was the man who did most of the work. Despite the fact that it was primitively lighted and awkwardly arranged, the show was a top-notch survey of U. S. art, eclipsing even the fine one put on two summers ago by the Metropolitan Museum in Manhattan...
Never has Jesus been so potent in the affairs of men as in the past 14 decades. The years from Anno Domini 1800 to Annum Domini 1940 have been the period in which he has moulded mankind as never before. This flat statement, a shock to many who have long accepted the glib belief that "the world is drifting away from Christianity," was not made by an ignoramus. It was made by Kenneth Scott Latourette. Professor of Missions and Oriental History at Yale University. Three years ago Dr. Latourette started writing a monumental six-volume History of the Expansion...
Some day soon a Thurberesque suburbanite will come home more harried and pursued than usual, and have a shock. Arrived at his front door, he will notice that during the day his unpredictable spouse has had a large new flagstone laid there. It will not make him feel any better to see on the stone some huge three-toed tracks, a foot or more long. Nobody will have to tell him they are dinosaur tracks-his atavistic hackles will rise at the sight. Inside the house (if his wife has really been doing her stuff) he will be confronted with...
...England, began to permit themselves the luxury of domestic worries. But last week their attention was jerked back to a foreign crisis-this one across the Pacific. Businessmen in scores of trades from toys to machine tools wondered how badly their businesses would be hurt. By the time the shock of the headlines had passed, most of them were thinking that they would not be hurt badly...