Word: shocked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...also a man with one of the most unusual faces in public life. It is lined and jowly and the nose is long. Under a shock of coarse, iron-grey hair are widely spaced, bushy eyebrows which slope toward the cheekbones, veiling heavy-lidded, heavy-circled eyes. He looks like an extremely dignified sheep with a hangover. But he is not at all like a sheep, and he never has a hangover...
...injuries which fits may bring about. In the British Medical Journal Dr. Gerald Caplan suggests a possible way to banish their worries. His idea: to drain off the epileptic's excess electrical energy by giving him an artificial fit "under controlled conditions of time & place" with the electric shock treatment used in insanity...
Death, as it must to all men, came in a bursting bomb to a king of whom most people had never heard. Through London, last fortnight, news finally reached the world that King John Sydney Clunies-Ross IV of the Cocos Islands* had died last August, of shock, following a Japanese air raid...
...this drawing-room comedy that wanders so far from the drawing room, Katherine Hepburn, in her original role, is ever the actress, never a "star." Spencer Tracy, whom she marries without love and in haste, to succumb at leisure, is ever Spencer Tracy: a big teddy-bear shock-absorber in whose farm-boy's mouth the clever lines seem sometimes out of place...
While we delay, the Nazis have time to organize their underground. The first shock of defeat is wearing off and eventually the Germans are bound to realize what defeat means to them as a nation. When that realization comes, we can expect more signs of action...