Word: shockingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...into slave labor in Siberia; 2) they were being held in Soviet hands to make sure that the U.S. could never use them in a war against Russia; 3) they were being held for use by the Russians themselves, either as a fifth column for Japan or as mercenary shock troops. The Soviet failure to repatriate Japanese prisoners was clearly a violation of the Potsdam Agreement. General Mac-Arthur had offered ships and aid to bring the missing Japanese home. But negotiations had broken down when the Russians refused to discuss military prisoners...
...million damage suit against the censorious Eric Johnston office for keeping the Hughes-produced Outlaw and its busty Jane Russell out of most of the nation's cinemas. The front was expanding. British censors were now reported doctoring Miss Russell's outlawful curves, and modest shock was officially registered by the Association of Bill Posters of England and Ireland...
Last week Barney, 37 and greying, turned up in the United States Attorney's office in Manhattan to report himself a drug addict. It started, said he, when he was in a Guadalcanal hospital, with shock and malaria. A couple of his hospital corpsmen friends had given him dope (not part of the services' regular malaria therapy, but a rare resort in cases of extreme migraine). As months went by, his headaches recurred; somehow (perhaps with forged prescriptions), Barney got more dope. Says he: "I got in over my head...
...Shock Troupe...
...operators sit at ease, watching the airplane by eye and radar. A signal puts it into a dive or spin. Down it screams. Shock waves buffet its wings, claw at its tail surfaces. If anything cracks, a flashing light on the television screen tells what part has yielded. No life is lost, and every detail of the plane's experience, up to the final smash if it comes, is accurately recorded...