Word: shockingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...same stories had been aired on the Senate floor five years earlier. Olds, a plain-featured man with jutting ears and a smooth manner of speech, testified that he had written as he did "because I believed radical writing was needed in the 'golden '20s' to shock the American people. . . out of the social and political lethargy . . ." He emphatically denied that he had ever been a Communist; Communism was a "negation of democracy...
Inevitable Day. Despite the first quick sense of shock, the news made no essential change at all in U.S. relations with Russia. Like U.S. scientists, U.S. planners had well known that the day must inevitably come-and soon-when Russia would have the bomb. "Ever since atomic energy was first released by man," wrote the President, "the eventual development of this new force by other nations was to be expected. This probability has always been taken into account...
Dearer Ovaltine. The British move touched off convulsive reflex actions around the fiscal world. (To cushion the shock, British banks and exchanges were closed for one day; other countries declared similar holidays.) All the dominions devalued their currencies in proportion; Canada, a dollar country, devalued its dollar 10%. In the colonies the readjustment was automatic. Ireland, Egypt and Israel brought their pounds into parity with Britain's. Norway, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, The Netherlands and Sweden made devaluation moves...
Doctors are always on the alert, Somogyi points out, for "insulin shock"-severe symptoms of trembling, sweating, convulsions and even coma-which follow when overdoses of insulin reduce the sugar content of the blood drastically. But, he argues, there may actually be a serious blood-sugar deficiency before these dramatic symptoms occur. Then the body's glandular forces go to work, building up the blood sugar. In such circumstances they overdo the job: soon, there is again too much sugar in the blood, and many physicians are likely to order more insulin -thus completing the vicious circle...
...bishop was something of a shock. In 1939, the Roman Catholics of Kansas City, Mo. hardly knew what to make of the intense, quiet-mannered man with reddish-brown hair and big ideas who came to preside over their...