Word: shocked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Still recovering from the shock of having no report due after last week-end, we march fearlessly forward in our expose of the lives and loves (questionable) of the Mid-off boys...
Three Stages of Emotion. For the democratic world, Stage I was characterized first by the numb, sinking feeling of shock when a new Nazi invasion began; then by a few days of false hope that the campaign would go well, then by the despairing finality of another decisive defeat, finally by the return to a fool's paradise (e.g., the Phony War) until another Nazi invasion began...
...German was reserved the hollow feeling of shock, when the Allies landed in North Africa, in Sicily, in Italy, in Normandy, in southern France, on the east bank of the Rhine. This time the Germans felt the false hopes of abortive offensives, Atlantic Walls and secret weapons-and still hollower feelings after the fall of Tunis, Sicily, Naples, Rome; Kharkov, Kiev, Odessa, Bucharest; Paris, Marseilles, Antwerp; Riga, Sofia, Warsaw, Budapest; Aachen and Cracow; Frankfurt and Danzig; Essen and Vienna; Magdeburg and Nürenberg; Bremen, Milan, Munich, Berlin...
...Much Ado About Nothing" makes its debut in Sanders Theatre on Wednesday evening, May 23, the directing talents of Fritz Jessner, long a leader of the German stage, will be displayed at Harvard for the first time. He succeeds Mrs. Mark de Wolfe Howe, whose resignation came as a shock to Radcliffe authorities...
Said one broker: "VE day won't be a shock to the market. It will be just a mild surprise...