Word: shocked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That assault was a model of sound tactics. First a shock unit rowed across the river at night, set up a small defense perimeter before German patrols caught on. By the time the Germans could muster local reserves, the Russians were moving in light guns and mortars. When the Russians held firm, the Germans called in more troops from other sectors along the river bank. In an area thus weakened, the Russians drove through a new crossing. Now the alarmed Germans began reaching back for strategic reserves, but the Russians, working quickly, joined the two bridgeheads, consolidated communications across...
...Bellinger of General Electric Co., showed a picture of the air disturbances at the muzzle of a gun at the moment of firing (see cut). The knots near the muzzle are the hot, expanding gases expelled from the barrel. The long, dark, curved line ahead of them is the "shock wave" of compressed air created when an object travels faster than sound (the smaller curved line at the top of the picture is a shock wave caroming off a metal plate). This phenomenon, which airmen know as "compressibility," has thus far prevented airplanes from flying faster than sound (TIME, July...
...Berlin radio announced that units of the barrel-bottom Volkssturm or Home Army had been thrown in on the Western front; very few of these pathetic specimens, wearing distinctive arm bands, had been encountered on the fighting lines. Substandard Wehrmacht troops were captured in fixed positions during the first shock of the attack, but as the battle wore on the prisoners taken began to look more & more like the cream of the German army...
...fight to the bitter end for the vindication of human rights and the preservation of Christian civilization. That conviction has increased by what I have seen in Italy, in Belgium and in Holland of Nazi barbarism, and by the tales I have heard from unimpeachable witnesses-tales that shock and anger. . . . We are deeply grateful to you for having joined with our other Allies in waging a war overseas...
Nothing can be done to ease the jarring shock of the first reports of casualties to their next of kin. But the Army last week adopted a procedure designed to eliminate the gnawing doubts and anxieties that invariably follow its terse telegrams. Henceforth the telegrams will be followed by full, fast follow-up reports direct from theaters...