Word: shocked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...people like to read stories and books that reek with sin, that shame the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, that shock and insult high heaven? It is because millions in America are honeycombed with impurity, vice, adultery and moral rot. When they read popular books and magazines that sanction this . . . they feel less guilty about their own sins...
...piqued into trying it with mine. The experiment went well until the reading of Edmund Wilson's Memoirs of Hecate County (which county, incidentally, we Westerners seem unable to pronounce).* At that point, the wildest of bacchanalian orgies ensued. At length, after recovering from shock, I relegated the mice to an unused bird cage and covered the whole disagreeable scene with one of my old sweatshirts...
...dried as a stalk in an old corn shock. Big, conservative, conscientious Gustav Theodore Kuester (TIME, April 29) had left his rich Cass County acres and no head of first-rate hogs in the care of a friend and moved into smoggy Des Moines to do his biennial bit of legislating. The 98 Republicans in the 108-member House promptly and unanimously elected him Speaker...
...board of directors of Diana Stores Corp. last week got an unusual shock. Diana's president, Harry Greenburg, turned down a bonus of $450,000. And he did not do it because of sky-high taxes...
...University-wide shock at the news that as much as ten thousand dollars' worth of belongings had been stolen was inexcusable. Plainly, the weak, scattered admonitions about "petty" thievery and locking one's door had prepared almost no one for an account of activities which more resembled wholesale looting than casual stealing. In view of the individual student's ignorance of the whole picture, those University authorities who recognized that this was a persistent, going business, could have made a flat official statement of the seriousness of the situation with the suggestion that the serial numbers and labels...