Word: shocked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Walton went in with the paratroopers long before dawn, flung himself out of the plane door at such low altitude that "there was only a moment to look around in the moonlight as my chute opened. I landed in a pear tree, which was a good shock absorber, but I didn't filter through to the ground; instead I dangled helplessly about three feet above ground, a perfect target for the snipers I could hear not far away...
...Belgium, the Resistance and hunger were behind the crisis. In Maastricht, liberated Holland's biggest city, underground fighters (Stoottroepen, meaning shock troops) charged three prominent citizens with collaboration, clapped them into jail. When Interior Minister Jacob Burger protested against indiscriminate purging, the Stoottroepen of both occupied and liberated Holland forced his resignation...
Note of Cheer. If high taxes and costs have put a ceiling on profits, businessmen may still extract one note of cheer: the same taxes may help to cushion the shock to profits when volume falls...
...Tree, Grows In Brooklyn (20th Century-Fox), coming from a big Hollywood studio, is man-bites-dog news. Instead of sweetening up Betty Smith's exuberant best-seller and furnishing ten sure laughs for every carefully shock-absorbed tear, such ex-New Yorkers as Tess Slesinger, one of the writers, and Elia Kazan, the director, have turned it into a sober and reasonably truthful story of life among the lowly...
Fradd, who is on a one-year leave of absence from Harvard, works solely with the remedial phase of the rehabilitation program, dealing with men in the latter stages of recovery. His experience in working with shell shock and gas cases in France, and with amputees at the Walter Reed Hospital as a Lieutenant during the last war, make him well qualified for this work...