Word: shocked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week the protesters got a shock. Archbishop Ritter, a mild but positive man, gave them a warning in a pastoral letter, read at all Masses throughout his archdiocese. If they carried through their threat of action against the Church, he said, they would be open to the gravest penalty the Church can exercise-excommunication. "Obedience to ecclesiastical authority, said his letter, was a cardinal principle of their faith. So, he reminded them, was "the equality of every soul before Almighty...
...Shock Troops. Meanwhile, strikes threatened to paralyze the country. In the industrial north, 800,000 steelworkers were going out on a general strike; to Italian leftists, steelworkers are known as the "motorized divisions of the Communist revolution." In Florence, city employees were on strike, in Messina the printers walked out. In Catanzaro it was the building workers, and in the Venetian province the railway and streetcar workers. In Terni, demonstrating workers carried posters denouncing the Pope as a "starver of the poor," and suggesting that Premier de Gasperi be hanged. Most serious of all was the battle of the fields...
...hierarchy of the great masters, the greatest have a quality beyond the temporal, which Picasso lacks, and shock tactics are not a final way to alter human vision. The crux and center of Picasso's art is, in my view, hysteria, and in this he so echoes the prevailing evil of his age that he seems to be its prophet...
...signed up as a shortstop for the barnstorming Kansas City Monarchs. It was a Negro club featuring old and reliable Pitcher "Satchel" Paige, who would have been a big leaguer once, had the big leagues been willing to admit Negroes sooner. The grubby life with the Monarchs was a shock to college-bred Jackie. The Monarchs traveled around in an old bus, often for two or three days at a time (the league stretches from Kansas City to Newark) without a bath, a bed, or a hot meal, and then crawled out long enough to play a game. The smart...
...those internationalists who expected that, with the establishment of the United Nations, sweet reasonableness would supplant power as the keystone of world diplomacy, Mr. Vishinsky's petulant outburst before the General Assembly must have been quit a shock. The provocation for all the sound and fury, Secretary Marshall's proposals for circumventing the Security Council and the veto in certain instances, were logically constructed to increase the effectiveness of U.N.'s authority; and the recommendations were backed by overwhelming support from world opinion as measured in the General Assembly...