Word: shocking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...captain of the Vidar, on reaching Stockholm, reported that his ship had been "struck by something under water with an awful shock"; and experts representing the Admiralty were at once despatched to examine the Vidar's slightly damaged hull. They reported that "every circumstance connected with the affair seems to point to a collision between the Vidar and the M-1 when the latter was on the point of rising to the surface...
Former college stars, many of them of All-American calibre, form the shock troops of the "pro" game. The Giant roster includes Joppe, Tomlin, and McBride of Syracuse; Brennan and Williams of Lafayette; Milstead of Yale; Parnell of Allegheny; Benhert of Rutgers; Haines of Penn State; and Hendrian of Pittsburgh...
...First of all, I received a shock during the first few minutes after my arrival in Cambridge which came near upsetting all my calculations. Rushing up out of the 'pill box', all on fire with ambition, and the antennae of my mind sharpened by a whole summer's curiosity, alert to the point, of pain, I was on the point of dashing across the square and throwing myself into the conflict when--whiz!--a Ford shot around the corner and, hitting a poor pedestrian not five feet from me, dragged him out of sight...
...Third Story: "We crossed to Boulogne. . . .The next evening we were taken back from Calais to Dover. . . .Having always been immune from seasickness ... I found myself thinking of mines and wondering what the explosion and shock would be like. When we all three were safely seated in the railway train at Dover, the following interchange of experiences took place...
Little does he know the truth. All is not peace within this genial square. For the pipes of Pan--a tin pan--suddenly shock the literary browser with their metallic wails. And then, like locusts on a drowsy summer day, every steam pipe in that crewhile haven of peace pipes up to swell the radiator chorus, and the pandemonium of a boiler factory fills the sanctuary...