Word: shocking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Real Shock...
...writer, when he knows what it is about and how it is done, grows accustomed to war. ... It is a shock to discover how truly used to it you become. . . But no one becomes accustomed to murder. And murder on a large scale we saw every day. . . . The totalitarian fascist states believe in the totalitarian war. That put simply means that whenever they are beaten by armed forces they take their revenge on unarmed civilians. In this war, since the middle of November, they have been beaten at the Parque del Oeste, they have been beaten at the Pardo, they...
...about one-third back from the bow. Silhouetted by the holocaust, passengers began dropping out of the windows like peas from a collander. From the control cabin swarmed officers and crew. Struggling figures emerged from the blazing hulk, stumbled, rose, fell again in fiery suffocation or from broken legs, shock, concussion. Down on the slowest ones then smashed the enormous incandescent mass in a blazing blizzard of fabric, crashing girders, melted duralumin. Still out of the inferno crept struggling figures, afire from head to foot, some stark naked, their clothes burned away, their skin and flesh in sizzling tatters...
...question "Is Landis really the man?" needs a bit of public airing. For to many who were profoundly pleased at the selection of Mr. Landis a few months ago, on the basis of his brilliant legal thinking and his diplomatic handling of the S.E.C., it comes as distinct shock that the new Dean of the Law School has shown doubts about the illegality of the sit-down strike and has come out in favor of the Supreme Court change...
...seated directly in their path Pennsylvania's Senator Guffey lunching with John L. Lewis. Mr. Taylor bowed, and after having seated his wife returned to chat pleasantly with the two laborites. To the Mayflower's politically sophisticated lunchers this act itself was a shocker. Greater was the shock when Messrs. Guffey & Lewis, having finished their meal, strolled over to Mr. Taylor's table, Mr. Lewis meeting Mrs. Taylor for the first time. Senator Guffey hurried on but John L. Lewis sat down for 20 minutes. Before he left Mr. Lewis remarked that he would like...