Word: shocked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Second shock to the Army was being told by the Tokyo Government that the U. S. was doing absolutely nothing about renewing its trade treaty with Japan, which lapses next week. While this did not mean any immediate hardship, it did mean that at any moment the U. S. might declare an embargo which would stop 74% of the Army's war supplies. Last week Colonel Henry L. Stimson, who as Secretary of State (1929-33) constantly opposed Japanese ambitions, urged just such an embargo...
...pleaded that Stalin not completely hogtie U. S. Communists with Russian foreign policy. Concluded Gitlow: "Not only do I vote against the decision, but when I return to the United States, I will fight against it!" Followed a moment of heavy silence; then a low whewing whistle of collective shock...
...nerves of every living thing in Anatolia vibrated like taut catgut to the first, subaudible, microseismic music of an impending earthquake. The slow vibration became a horrible hum, and grew, like the sound of approaching bombers. Then the shock...
...returned to what was left of their homes to stare or scrabble for loved ones. Those who remembered the repetitious earthquake of April 1938 stayed in the fields. Others prostrated themselves.before their prostrate mosques, calling on Allah. Hardly had they thanked their God for sparing them when a new shock came. Between two and five that morning the earth quaked four terrible times. When it was all over...
...other sector of the front, cut through a graveyard on a hill smashed and harrowed into a corpsy pudding by gunfire. The next chapter is a letter from Jerphanion to his wife in which he tells her of the rumor that G. H. Q. is about to form "shock troop" battalions, of his canny hope of getting a job in the rear as an instructor. The camera now turns to General Duroure, who is about to take his regular morning horse back ride...