Word: shockingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Refreshing Change. In London, Gil Winant was a striking contrast to his predecessor, that ruddy salesman, Joe Kennedy. He gangled; his hair straggled down in a black shock over a craggy face in which only the eyes crackled; he vibrated with a strange intensity. Once, shortly after his arrival in 1941, a luncheon crowd demanded a speech. Winant rose with a glazed look, and for four straight minutes of silent agony, stood shifting from one leg to the other. Then he whispered: "The worst mistake I ever made was in getting up in the first place...
...Shock. This was the picture around the nation last week. There were gripes. Few men wanted handouts; they preferred to help themselves. But they would like a place to live-and some shirts and a suit...
...pouring across the Rhine, the Navy was bombarding Okinawa. By last week more than ten million veterans of World War II were back; seven million were at work; 2,100,000 were at school or on vacation; 83,607 were hospitalized. The country had promised to cushion the shock of their return and the country, for the most part, had made good. No soldier could deny that...
...Shock (20th Century-Fox) is a mild word for what happens to a nice, petite young Army wife in this fair-to-middling thriller...
...steel towers on the little islands around Bikini to support 'batteries of cameras, radio-controlled and sheathed in lead against radiation. A legion of instruments will be exposed on the sand, built into concrete bunkers, or sunk in the lagoon. They will measure radiation, heat, shock and blast. Twenty sunken instruments will measure the waves, which might rise to a height of several hundred feet...