Word: shocked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cried Geoffrey Shakespeare, Under Secretary for the Dominions and Chairman of the Evacuation Board: "This deed will shock the world...
Operation on the Mind. Schizophrenia, the kind of insanity characterized by withdrawal into a dream world, is the most widespread mental disease in the U. S. In recent years convulsions induced by insulin, metrazol, azoman and electric shock have improved many schizophrenics. Last week Dr. Edward Adam ("Streck") Strecker, a U. of Pa. psychiatric bigwig, described a new brain operation for schizophrenia. It is called pre-frontal leucotomy, involves drilling a small hole in the temple, inserting a narrow, flat-bladed instrument with which a fan-shaped cut is made in the brain lobes...
...owned houses outside the gates, their families were knocked off their feet, and window panes disintegrated. Passengers in a TWA stratoliner, 6,000 ft. up and 20 miles away, saw "huge pillars of white smoke ... a bright flame at the base." In towns 125 miles away people felt the shock...
...last week the stature of destroyers grew. They became much more than busy little sea shepherds. Psychologically they were projected to the bulk of battleships; they became a new hope of victory, a pledge that Britain was not alone, a shock to Axis complacency-all by the simple fact of a horse trade. The U. S. swapped 50 "over-age" flush-decker destroyers for eight Atlantic bases...
Soon Salvationist Damon switched to soul-saving. His steady rise to the Eastern commissionership in 1935 paralleled the Army's own growth in the U. S.. Commissioner Damon, with piercing blue eyes, shock of white hair and resonant voice, played a leading role in that change. Since 1893 he has traveled 1,099,787 miles, spoken at countless thousands of meetings, made thousands of converts. Last month 900 sinners came forward at his meetings...