Word: shockingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Senator was honestly startled by all the furor, but after the first shock, he seemed almost resigned. His western tour had been playing him tricks almost since he began planning it. He had hoped to make a quiet, semi-vacation trip, sounding out the reaction to his hopes for the presidency. But speaking invitations had begun pouring...
When Harry Truman nominated his good friend, California Oilman Ed Pauley, to be Under Secretary of the Navy in January 1946, he got a rude shock. Senators, noting that the Navy buys great quantities of oil, were leary of Pauley's behind-the-scenes activities in the great tidelands oil controversy and let it be known that they would refuse to confirm him. After six weeks of stormy hearings, Harry Truman withdrew the nomination...
After that, Kootz's own local stable of U.S. painters could only irritate, not shock. Fernand Leger brought up the rear with one of his obsessive puzzles: three ropey girls tied in a Gordian knot. Venus de Milo was obviously as out of fashion as a pretty knee...
...Pleasures of Peacock). Cries of "Fire!" A tall, handsome, irascible old man hurries in, followed by a curate who implores him to leave. "By the immortal gods," shouts the old man, looking at his beloved books, "I will not move." Several weeks later, he died of shock. Death had paid Novelist Thomas Love Peacock the compliment of imitating his style...
Died. Manuel Rodriguez, 30, "Manolete, El Monstruo" (the monster), the greatest bullfighter of his day, the idol of millions of Spaniards and Latin Americans; from traumatic shock after a cornada (horn wound); in Linares, Spain (see INTERNATIONAL...