Word: shocking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most of Great Britain, since war broke out, no news has been bad news. For months the country had been preparing itself for a sudden, overwhelming, spectacular shock. And when war came, nothing seemed to happen: darkness, silence, expectancy, laconic communiques. "What kind of war is this?" asked impatient Lord Beaverbrook in his Evening Standard. Was anything ever going to happen? Were Britain and France in it up to their necks, or had they just put a toe in to see how cold it was? Were they stalling until Poland was beaten to accept the expected German peace offer...
...great shock of Russia's invasion of Poland did not shake Britain out of her aim. Although Lord Beaverbrook shrieked "Murder!" in the Evening Standard, the official communique made it clear that Britain would not declare war on Russia. Said a Government declaration: "This attack [the Russian invasion of Poland] made upon their ally, at a moment when she is prostrated in the face of overwhelming forces brought against her by Germany, cannot ... be justified by the argument put forward by the Soviet Government. The full implication of these events is not yet apparent. ..." A Government spokesman made...
...Wound Shock. The bane of medical officers in France during World War I. "wound shock" is a condition of "lowered vitality" which follows wounds, even trivial ones. Unchecked, it causes death. Wound shock comes from pain, loss of body heat, bleeding and toxemia. Lack of water balance, due to excessive sweating and short water rations, makes soldiers ready victims. The loss of fluid thickens their blood, produces a high concentration of poisonous urea. Best treatment for wound shock, discovered in the last year of World War I: 1) small doses of morphine for relief of pain; 2) an abundance...
...every day so that he would not tarry with naughty schoolmates. During the dislocations of the Franco-Prussian War, Rimbaud, who was already writing verse, ran away to Paris. There the penniless poet, little more than a pretty-faced child, slept in a barracks: the soldiers "assaulted" him. This shocking experience, which sent him shuddering home, caused not merely a "revulsion," says Author Starkie, but a sensual "revelation." At home, Rimbaud set out to shock the respectable citizens. He would stroll, dressed like a tramp, down the main street during the sacred apéritif hour, smoking a short pipe...
World War I came as a severe shock to U. S. business. World War II, following a full year of alarms and a fortnight of intense crisis, was no shock. There was no selling panic, no steep drop in prices. The Dow-Jones industrial average of 30 industrial stocks which had dropped almost 7 points to 135.11 in the week ending August 19 oscillated without great excitement. Its low was 133.31 on August 24. Then it began to climb as war became a virtual certainty...