Word: shockingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shame spread through the world with the news of Gandhi's murder. The event brought the shock of recognition, rather than the shock of surprise. More forcibly than anyone in his age, Gandhi had asserted that love was the law; how else should he die but through hatred? He had feared machines in the hands of men not wise enough to use them, had warned against the glib, the new, the plausible; how else should he die, but by a pistol in the hands of a young intellectual...
Like many another textile man who has looked like a genius during the boom, Joe Axelrod's real test will come with the return of cutthroat competition when the boom ends. He thinks his company is solid enough to withstand the shock. Last year, on gross sales of $37 million, net profits were some $5.5 million...
...Electric Shock. In California, the U.S. Department of Justice named General Electric, Westinghouse and eight smaller electric companies in civil and criminal indictments. The charge: violating the antitrust laws by fixing prices of electrical equipment in the Far West...
Sinister Summer. In this atmosphere, half sickening and half magical, the events of the summer continue to shock the boy's senses like the bluejay and the red ball. At first Joel misses his aunt in New Orleans. But the sinister fascinations of Skully's Landing increase, centering on the tomboy, Idabel, who lives up the road, and on Cousin Randolph, who drinks sherry, calls him "darling" and holds his hand...
...Shock of Battle. According to Fletcher Pratt, Peleliu was the Marines' hardest battle. None of them was easy, though he calls the assault on Tinian "perfection." Pratt, one of the best of the civilian war analysts, wrote The Marines' War at the Marine Corps' request, but on three conditions, all granted: that he have full access to official Marine files and captured Japanese records; permission to interview eyewitnesses; complete freedom of opinion. The result is a fine service history written with clarity and intelligence, one that many Marines will welcome as an authoritative corrective to their...