Word: shocked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when this one finally [ends] it will open to all of us an untrod and unknown road on which we must travel in converting from a war economy to a peace economy." On this road, said he, the U.S. in self-interest will do its utmost to cushion the shock of Latin American reconversion, stimulate postwar trade. Said Clayton: "We recognize our responsibility in this field, and we propose to meet it, consistent with bur laws, our public opinion and a due regard for our own economy...
...Many people will feel very ill indeed, and after the first jubilations a deep depression will hang over these islands, especially over those who wake up in police stations. . . . When the nation has recovered from the shock, a lot of bishops will make exactly the same speeches as bishops made after the last war. . . . This will make a lot of thoughtful people wonder if bishops are worth the money they...
...blindfolded and stripped. His chin, belly, groin and legs were daubed with a coating of lampblack and collodion. Then he was made to lie down on a table and, while voices taunted him with horrible threats, one of the brothers stood ready to give him a mild shock in the crotch with an induction coil charged by two dry-cell batteries...
...collodion, set off a flash of blue flame that enveloped him. Perry leaped up wildly, ran smack into a wall. Several of the brothers grabbed him, rubbed out the flames with their hands, then rushed him to the University's hospital. Next day Robert Perry died of shock from burns that had scorched more than 75% of his skin...
...shock was lasting. "For a long time I was chastened whenever I remembered that my mother had come close to killing me." Throughout his childhood, at mo ments of extreme tension, he would be come immobile, in full possession of his mental faculties but without the power to make his hands or his voice obey his will. He was nervous and imaginative in a world where only the strong-willed and easy-going got along. When his mother got a job as a cook he ran wild in the streets of Jackson, sneaked into saloons and begged drinks from...