Word: shockingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week brought another kind of shock to Britain's plain people and to its Laborite Ministers. Ellen Wilkinson, the fiery, tiny (4 ft. 10 in.) Minister of Education, was dead. To her colleagues in the Cabinet, many of whom were tired or ailing, her death at 55 was more than the loss of an able and courageous fighter for the Party's causes: it was also a solemn warning. She had been in a hospital for 24 hours with bronchitis; there her fatigued heart had collapsed...
...preparation for the storm, of civil strife gathering around the Gruaer case, the British last week strung barbed wire through Jerusalem, ordered the evacuation of Rehavia, the city's best residential district. The shock of the evacuation notices spread consternation through the Jewish community. When she got her notice, Mrs. Rifka Benjamin, a 65-year-old Hungarian widow, fell dead...
Japan "must be administered a tremendous shock." Otherwise, "only the complete destruction of her military power could open the way to lasting peace." He compiled a tally of debits and credits in property and in human relationships and human lives...
...last week there were indications that both labor & management were trying hard to avoid the mistakes that sent wages chasing prices in an exhausting spiral last year. Economists thought that, barring the shock of sudden industrial upheaval, the inflationary crisis had passed. Labor knew that falling prices were already pumping new buying power into existing wage scales...
...from under the price raisers. With a shrewd sense of public relations, Young Henry reduced the prices of Fords $15 to $50. Said he: the Ford Company was finally making money after a year in the red and could afford to shave prices, hoped to reduce them further. This "shock treatment" was the company's down payment toward stable prosperity. (It would also take some of the steam out of the U.A.W.'s demands for pay raises...