Word: shocking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cabinet. At a Council of Ministers, he referred to his decision to remain in office and added: "I believe that in that way I will best serve the interests of Italy, which must 'be preserved from the shock and unrest which would certainly accompany a Cabinet crisis at this moment...
Visitors to the Engineering section of the Exhibition at Wembley received a sudden shock when their umbrellas and purses and other articles containing steel were torn from their persons by an invisible force. The thief was a giant magnet weighing 6,720 pounds...
...that of a patient who has had an overdose of insulin. The scientists interpret the findings as indicating that the normal supply of the reserve blood sugar in the body is insufficient for such a prolonged and violent effort as a marathon race. They suggest that the state of shock that these runners manifested could have been prevented, or at least ameliorated, if a larger amount of carbohydrate or sugar-containing food had been taken in the diet the night before or the morning of the race. They also suggest that it might be advisable for the runners to take...
...more ingeniously effective than its original. A married couple spend their honeymoon serving on the same jury, whereupon the young wife is faced with the problem of passing judgment on a woman who shot the seducer whom the wife herself would have liked to shoot. It comes as a shock to her husband, with his hard and fast notions of right and wrong among women, that his wife is tarred with the same brush as the defendant, but he manages to get over it. The picture resorts to the favorite current system of wadding up a batch of stellar talent...
...discovery that the United States government, recent sponsor of disarmament, and self-proclaimed opponent of militarism, is sponsor of Citizens Military Training Camps may conceivably give pacifistic minds a shock. What would seem a grotesquely paradoxical situation is in truth merely an excellent and intelligent educational move...