Word: shocked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...troops in Europe got a bad shock when they came up against the giant German Royal Tiger tank. Mounting the German's high-velocity 88-mm. gun, it outshot, outweighed and sometimes even outmaneuvered Allied armored and mobile weapons...
Last week the U.S. Army got another shock. A German broadcast paid awed tribute to a Russian weapon which U.S. Army ordnance experts apparently have not even been given a peek at. Said Nazi reporter Heinz Megerlein...
...unrelenting and insatiable search for food, shrews exist in a perpetual state of nervous tension. So touchy are they that when a fox or a weasel, probably mistaking the rank-smelling shrew for a field mouse, lays a predatory paw on it, the shrew usually expires from shock...
...home of the girl's aunt (Spring Byington) there is some touching domestic business (by Miss Byington, Shirley Temple and the accomplished Tom Tully)-memorably a Christmas supper at which everybody sings O Come, All Ye Faithful. There are also moments of franker pain and shock than most films dare to hand an audience without Boris Karloff to reassure them it is all in fun-a scene with a screwily bellicose veteran of World War I (Chill Wills-see cut), a horrible fracas between Zack and a dog, a still grimmer scene in which Zack, alone in his Y.M.C.A...
...take over the job he did not want. By his own admission, he lacks Temple's vision and imagination. He will probably never lead a great spiritual revival in the Church of England, as Temple might have done; nor is he likely to say or do anything to shock or upset his fellow Anglicans, as Temple often did. What he will do, few if any of his 40,000,000 Anglican followers seemed to know...