Word: shocked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...quotations above indicate, "You Touched Me" frequently depends for its humor on the shock of ribaldry, but while it's not as tender as "The Glass Menagerie" it's never really vulgar...
...most part the physical remains of Tokyo were of the West. Structural steel and concrete had survived the shock of war; the flimsy Japanese houses had not found protection in white squares of paper hung on their gates to propitiate the fire gods...
...Shock of Defeat. Never was a nation so ill-prepared for defeat. A Domei broadcast admitted that the Emperor's rescript came as a shock to a people who had been cut off from true military and political news of the outside world. Official statements and Tokyo broadcasts foreshadowed some of the Jap attitudes with which MacArthur must deal...
...first atomic bomb had been dropped. A few seconds after the flash, the shock wave from the blast reached the Enola Gay, several miles away, and rocked it like a giant burst of flak. From the men who had rung up the curtain on a new era in history burst nothing more original than an awed...
Plans & Prospects. Industry was ready for the cancellations. It had discarded the notion that a tapering-off in war orders would cushion the reconversion shock...