Word: shocked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...southern column captured the major airfield two miles south of the ene my base. While bearded, dirty shock troops cleared the field of obstacles, the code "cafeteria lunch" flashed to Mer rill's headquarters. By the time the field was cleared, the first gliders and transport planes arrived with fresh Chinese troops, piled in reinforcements to carry the battle northward through Myitkyina's back door...
...Electrical sleep, an improvement on electric shock therapy for the insane, has been developed by a group of California doctors. A treatment lasts seven minutes. The doctors claim that their method is as effective as insulin shock against schizophrenia...
...case was typical of hundreds brought by NLRB during the great labor-management fights of the late 19305. After the company had dissolved its company union in 1942 at NLRB direction, shock-haired, persevering President Edward G. Budd wrote a letter to the 15,000 employes of his Philadelphia plant suggesting that the company union was a pretty good thing after all. He pointed out that in ten years it had raised the base-pay rate from 55? to $1.09 an hour. The C.I.O.'s United Auto Workers, working to unionize the plant, screamed "coercion" and got NLRB...
Last week, when the child (renamed Patricia Ann) was ten months old, the Hardwigs' trial began on their $500,000 suit against South Hoover Hospital for the "shock and excitement" Mrs. Hardwig had suffered from the discovery. "We love her," said they of Patricia Ann, "but we don't feel...
...beachhead will be established on the steps of the European fortress without the payment of a ghastly price. As I see it at the moment, Canada is all teed up for a sickening shock. ... I can say nothing more earnestly and sincerely than I say this: . . . away with petty politics, away with fatuous and useless wrangling...