Word: shocked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...them, the U. S. Navy plans and builds to be ready for Japan in the Pacific. Since Japan, with eight to twelve new 45,000 tonners added to its present ten modern battleships, could beat the U. S. Navy's 14, Lem Speers's story was a shock. Some wiseacres tried to explain it all on the grounds that: 1) the U. S. Senate was about to take up a $963,799,478 Naval Appropriation Bill, a further authorization for $655,000,000 in future appropriations; 2) that Mr. Speers's story did Navy friends' cause...
...risks probably did outweigh the gains. But so, perhaps, did necessity outweigh choice. Hitler could have nailed down his Swedish iron supply by sending a small shock army to Lulea after the Bothnian ice goes out next month. Perhaps he was forced into the Norwegian adventure prematurely by Allied moves. March 28, the Allied Supreme War Council decided to carry the war more sternly to the Germans, to squeeze even harder with the blockade. April 3 impetuous Winston Churchill was named British coordinator of defense. April 5 is the latest Herr Hitler could have started his first convoys toward Norway...
...idea was to electrify a strip of metal around the building's base. When a dog stopped to relieve himself, an electric current would pass up the stream, shock the dog and dissuade him from repeating his act. There was no question of the novelty of that. Scrupulous patent attorneys try to dissuade the concocters of such whizz-bangs from wasting their money on patents...
...rude shock is Sir Stilton Byles. In stead of expensive sympathy, Lady Fanny gets from him one stinging slap after an other, including the flat statement that her "love-days" are over. As for the spectre of Mr. Skeffington, "Lay him," says Sir Stilton. "If he haunts you, he must be laid. . . . Make friends with Job. See him often. Ask him to dinner. Lay him, in fact...
...gave the U. S. this shadowy shock was big Jim Farley. One night the little bells of the nation's news-tickers began to tinkle; clacking, wiry fingers tapped out under glass: "To clear up any misunderstanding, let me say that my name will be presented to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, and that's that...