Word: shocking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Moscow subway. In dry, prosaic, unemotional speeches, packed with phrases like "the idiotic disease of political carelessness," and with schoolteacherish questions and answers ("What is the essence of this attitude? The essence of this attitude is. . . .") Stalin has lectured Young Communists, delegates of the Third International, Stakhanovites, collective farmers, shock troopers, school children. But this is his first speech to the 1,143 people who make up the main governmental body of the Soviet Union...
...Russian proletariat moving from factory to factory, from village to city, in one of the great tidal movements of humanity that Tolstoy long ago described as the ceaseless wanderings of workmen over the earth. It ended uniform wages. Breakdowns, delays, confusions, led to experiments in management, industrial shock troopers, new incentives for labor, trials for sabotage. They resulted in celebrations at the dedications of power stations, but also in decrees that made factory managers liable to five years' imprisonment for inefficiency, led eventually to penalties on individual workmen for defective work...
...sudden obsequies of John Hanes's rabbit were a shock to the Treasury Department and to Congress. Pat Harrison promptly declared he would try to revive it, would call up the Hanes plan for consideration by his committee. Secretary Morgenthau, asked whether the President had forbidden his Treasury men to submit their studies to Congress, tactfully replied...
...sudden obsequies of John Hanes's rabbit were a shock to the Treasury Department and to Congress. Pat Harrison promptly declared he would try to revive it, would call up the Hanes plan for consideration by his committee. Secretary Morgenthau, asked whether the President had forbidden his Treasury men to submit their studies to Congress, tactfully replied...
...last 15 years that Turkey now has some 500 military airplanes and a standing Army of 200,000 well-trained men. Mistress of the heavily fortified Dardanelles and Bosporus, Turkey is an ally worth having, and the Turkish signature to the British-inspired Peace Front was a shock to former Ally Germany...