Word: shockingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nation got a sharp warning. A joint congressional committee of tax experts estimated last week that at the present rate of income and outgo, the U.S. would be in the red another $3 billion by next year. Such big round numbers had lost their ability to shock, the government was already $252 billion in debt. But one fact could be understood. If even in prosperous peacetime a government did not keep out of the red, then it was playing with economic dynamite...
...Anyone Deny? Increased taxes, Douglas said emphatically, were not the answer; a tax boost now, when the nation was in a mild slump, might be just the kind of shock that would put the present economy flat on its back. "It is very foolish for us to act on the basis of conditions of five or six months ago," said Douglas...
...cautiously optimistic report on their work. They had given injections of histamine to 38 disturbed patients. Ten (about 26%) improved; five of the ten improved enough to leave the hospital. The results were about the same as with a control group who had been given the more dangerous electric shock treatment. The doctors also found that patients who were first given histamine reacted better when given electric shock. In another series of treatments on 48 office patients with histamine alone, eleven showed slight improvement and 17 "moderate to marked" improvement...
Some people of the Southwest believe that the coyote never dies, some that the yowling beasts can talk, in Indian languages and Mexican-Spanish. Nobody is better qualified to round up all such legends, and more factual reports on the canny coyote, than Texas' shock-haired Professor Dobie, who knows as much about the Southwest as any man (Coro-nado's Children, Apache Gold and Yaqui Silver), and who has, moreover, lectured about it at Britain's Cambridge University (TIME...
...Arms aid now would be a serious shock to direct Russian-American relations, which seem to be picking up slightly...