Word: shocked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...came from little children who were wounded but not dead. . . . I saw one little boy with a big V-shaped gash in the back of his head who was walking around. A doctor told me that the child couldn't possibly live and would die any minute of shock...
Within three hours after the shock of invading against negligible opposition, a famed Marine regiment walked across Yontan airfield, one of the biggest in Okinawa Gunto, less than 400 miles from Kyushu. Casualties (from halfhearted snipers): very light. Planes could make emergency landings on the airfield now. A few hours of Seabee sweating would make it an excellent take-off point for medium bombers to fly to China, to Japan, to Formosa-all approximately 400 miles distant-and to knock out whatever chance the Japs might have left of shipping anything from the south or southwest to the homeland...
...puffy, spectacled man with a nervous tic in the left cheek and a shock of unruly grey hair arrived unexpectedly in Bucharest, from Moscow. Andrei Januari Vishinsky, Soviet Vice Commissar of Foreign Affairs, looked more than ever like an absentminded, amiable professor. But the Kremlin's ace trouble-shooter - and the tigerish prosecutor of the Moscow Old Bolshevik trials - had not come out of absentmindedness...
...Army had made a true and accurate estimate of what was still needed, even as its troops reached the Rhine at week's end, then the U.S. was due for one more rude shock. The new orders meant that the entire program for war had been underestimated. To make up the deficit, the U.S. was going to have to put up with shortages, forget reconversion for a while, and work as hard as it had before it blithely decided that victory in Europe was already...
Harris got the whole city into the act. Last week, the windows of Sherer's department store displayed Russian costumes, handicrafts, Margaret Bourke-White photos of a Russian Woman Shock Brigadier, a Moscow streetcar conductor, Stalin's great-aunt. Worcester's Museum of Natural History put on a show of Russian posters. The Public Library plugged books on Russia. The Art Museum gave a gallery to Marc Chagall, Ossip Zadkine. Boris Grigoriev. Women's clubs listened to talks on Russia; school children heard about Russia, wrote themes on Russia...