Word: shocked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...friends, who treated him as a tame prophet and his studio as a shrine, looked askance at bouncy Ellen, and when Watts' child-wife danced in on a dinner party dressed in pink tights, it was decided that she must go. Her later fame came as a faint shock to Watts...
...Shock on Shock. In the last two years, the empire has survived the shock of Edsel's death and Old Henry's retirement. There is no reason to suppose that it will not also survive the financial shock of the day when death comes to Old Henry Ford. The inheritance taxes on his 58% holdings of Ford stock would be enormous -if they were paid. But they will probably be minimized in the same way as the taxes on Edsel's 42% interest...
Versatile Actress McGuire (Claudia, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn) plays the mute girl to a fare-you-well, finally managing to stammer some words into an antique wall telephone after the shock of seeing the last of a series of murders. However improbable such a recovery may be in a medical sense, it makes excellent cinema sense. So do a dozen other scenes in the picture...
...makes a hobby of collecting earthquakes, revealed that the atomic bomb added something new to seismology that has heretofore been missing in ordinary earth rumblings. "Until the bomb observations," Leet explained, we were more or less working in the dark on one particular type of earthquake: the direct vertical shock...
...there had been a fine show of high-minded cooperation between the services. But no one doubted that the emotional explosion would come after the atomic shock waves had died away. Said the Navy's No. 1 ordnance man, Vice Admiral W. H. P. ("Spike") Blandy, chairman of the planning committee: "I have no illusions; there will be controversy later...