Word: shocked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shock-absorbent members of San Francisco's famed Commonwealth Club* heard last week one of the most radical ideas in all their oral history. The speaker was Secretary of the Interior Harold LeClare Ickes. His subject: "America's Postwar Frontier...
...after seeing the world and realizing that the rhythm out there is not the one we have here, that soon we shall be rudely awakened from this enchanted and idiotic dream, one feels like warning and alerting everybody so that the shock will not be too severe...
...Some hospitals do not use insulin or electric shock therapy because of staff "inertia...
...Reback of Buffalo) are alike in two respects: both have many readers; both have very theatrical ideas of the world. Their latest novels reveal a further likeness. Both authors appear to have thought that a lush subject for fiction would be the regeneration of fabulously rich Americans by war shock...
Doctors of the San Diego Naval Hospital went over to Tijuana to hear Dr. Perez Garcia. They were impressed. They invited him over to treat a few stubborn cases of malaria and rheumatic fever. A malaria patient had no more fever after his first shock. (Dr. Garcia's full course of treatment is usually four shocks, five days apart.) One rheumatic fever patient, after one treatment, refused to go on. But of the other two, one got well, the other improved...