Word: shockingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...catapult the hook engages the contraption's rope (held horizontally by the vertical arms) and pulls. That pull releases the spring, which instantly projects the container from the trough at a speed of about 45 miles per hour. Such speed prevents a destructive jerk at the pick-up plane. Shock is further reduced by absorbers within the plane. After the flyers have snaggled their package they draw it into the plane through a trap door in the bottom of the fuselage, by a winch which the propeller air stream operates. Archie W. Card and Henry Bushmeyer invented the catapult...
...shock of the disaster extended not only throughout the U. S. but to Europe. The Lord Mayor of London telephoned to Mayor John Daniel Marshall of Cleveland to express sympathy. The editors of the London Sketch and Daily News telephoned to Managing Editor Thomas Aaron Robertson of the Cleveland News to get the details of the tragedy for their papers...
...wickedly contrive and falsely and maliciously intend to bring him (McLean) into public disrepute and "to cause it to be suspected and believed that he attended a dinner at the Belgian Embassy in a disgraceful and drunken condition and that at such a dinner he had annoyed and shocked guests of the Belgian Ambassador and that the Belgian Ambassador was perplexed and ordered the plaintiff to leave in order to save his other guests from further embarrassment." In his declaration Plaintiff McLean said that "the plaintiff did not attend a dinner at the Belgian Embassy referred to in the article...
...some common shares of Hiram Walker, Inc. To Mr. Dyer's delight, the stock went up to 93⅞. He held on. Then the shares slid down to 66. Not until then did Mr. Dyer learn, he says, that Hiram Walker is a Canadian whiskey stock. His shock and grief at losing his money were exceeded only by his vexation at learning he had become involved in a liquor business. He sold his stock at a loss and, last week, wrote a letter of protest to the New York Curb Association, the market where Hiram Walker is listed. Loudly...
...bill was presented, Dr. Schacht merely roared at correspondents: "Neither the figures nor the conditions are acceptable to Germany! We would rather-far rather-remain under the Dawes Plan!" Later Germany's testy '"Iron Man" said that the allied proposals had struck him with "surprise and shock." Whereas the annual reparations payments under the Dawes Plan are $395,999,999, and whereas Dr. Schacht has been contending that Germany can pay no more than $332,000,000 yearly, the $28,000,000,000 bill works out at an average annual payment of some $500,000,000. The creditor...