Word: shockingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...General Secretary of the Polit-bureau (Political Bureau) of the Communist Party, in which the supreme power of the party is vested. Like his comrades, M. Stalin (Starleen) suffered imprisonment and banishment for his revolutionary activities. He is distinguished by a well-shaped head surrounded by a shock of black hair, just beginning to grey. He has a silky black mustache. His eyes are black, and rarely is there a gleam of merriment in them. His facial features suggest cruelty-a hard mask of oriental ruthlessness. He is a silent man, not given to speechifying; and behind his mask lies...
...death of Payson Dana in the Prime of his manhod comes as a great shock to his classmates, and indeed to a very large circle of Harvard graduates who had learned to count on his fine spirit and zeal...
While other Navy officials were celebrating Navy Day* with glad hearts, Rear Admiral Thomas Pickett Magruder, who so loves the Navy that he dared accuse it of large faults, received a shock. He and most other people had supposed the recent "Magruder Incident" was closed (TIME, Oct. 10). Now came a curt telegram from Secretary of the Navy Curtis Dwight Wilbur, detaching Admiral Magruder from his post at the Philadelphia Navy Yard...
...grazed his right temple, splintering the bone. He was immediately driven to the hospital, where he was able to walk to the operating room. His face suffered minor cuts from the splintered glass. His condition was said to be satisfactory, but the Athenians worried over him fearing that the shock would be more than his age could stand...
Quickly the news spread throughout the land-a land that had barely recovered from the shock of the ghastly murder of three members of the Arnaud family only three weeks before. A radio message carried the news to M. Theodore Steeg, returning from Marseilles to the Residency at Rabat. "Do the impossible to obtain the release of the four prisoners," wirelessed back the Resident General...