Word: shockingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...must by law,* the House first picked up the challenge flung by Harry Truman. Its first item of business was the President's veto of the tax-cut bill (TIME, June 23), which House Republicans were determined to override. They got a shock. Democratic Leader Sam Rayburn had done a fast job of rounding up diffident Democrats. He had also corralled two rebel Republicans-Wisconsin's stolid ex-Progressive, Merlin Hull, and Minnesota's sharp-faced Carl Anderson. When the vote was counted, and breathlessly recounted, Hull and Anderson represented the margin of Administration victory. If they...
...absorb the first shock of war, and to build the ready forces to full power, the planners say they need an industrial and manpower reserve which could mobilize a total of 131 air groups and 56 divisions in the first twelve months of war, 180 air groups and 74 divisions within two years...
...University of Chicago's Dr. Dallas B. Phemister, 64, chairman of the department of surgery. Shy Dr. Phemister first demonstrated that surgical shock was the result of blood loss from effective circulation; he also devised an operative procedure to arrest bone growth where disease made children's limbs unequal...
...Oosten hopes that this cycle can be interrupted somehow. One scheme: electrically charged barriers across the mouths of streams where lampreys spawn. This scheme may keep the eggs from hatching properly. Another plan: to shock the buried larvae by electrodes thrust into their mud beds. Dr. Van Oosten (and Lake fishermen) hope that Congress will not economize on a $20,000 appropriation promised for these experiments...
...downstairs, is represented as a talented scientist but he shows little of the scientific spirit; he is, in fact, a pretty depressing type of momma's boy. It is only too clear to seasoned Miss Lamarr that this leaning tower of quavering male virginity could never survive the shock if he learned of her Past. He learns, of course; the rake is murdered; Miss Lamarr goes on trial for her life. True Love, Dutch-uncled by Psychiatry, comes of age just in time and snags the real murderer. The whole show may possibly be trying to point a moral...