Word: shockingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sorry to say that I look toward the future with great concern. We cannot ignore the fact that according to von Seeckt's theory,* motorized German shock troops leaving Aachen at 8 p. m. could be at Brussels at 5 a. m. the next day without having met Belgian troops. . . . The population as a whole has behaved well except youths, who, apparently incited by their schoolmasters, resorted to tricks that impelled me to abandon riding or marching through the streets...
...full shock of the news could only be felt by Real Old Yale Men, because the Real Old Fence, which enclosed the Old Campus, was broken in a class rush in 1879. Onty two fragments of that original three-rail barrier are now extant, Photographer Pach's and a section in the Alpha Delta Phi Chapter house. Yale undergraduates could only realize that no Yale team captain can be properly photographed except sitting, with his hair brushed, on Photographer Pach's fragment. Photographer Pach announced that he had been offered and had refused as high...
...phase of the Harvard House Plan comes as something of a shock to one who, as a Harvard undergraduate, was used to being allowed the large amount of independence for which Harvard is distinguished and who also, as a Cambridge undergraduate, felt the annoyance of the rules and restrictions characteristic of the English universities...
...Caravan is an interesting, sometimes an amusing, volume. It should shock more people than professors. This edition is an improvement on the two previous ones by being somewhat smaller...
...calls "the barber's itch." Says he to The Suicide: "My eruption is only on the skin but you're sick inside." Other characters who experience a chapter-the-last are: 1) a lady "always wringing something" whom a bull gores; 2) a man who dies of shock when his wife threatens him with a pillow; 3) a doctor who falls into a hole in the ice and dies from exposure rather than arouse anyone; 4) a countrymaid who dies after eating the Sanatorium's canned meat. Norwegian humor and pessimism lend distinction to this bleak novel...