Word: shockingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...victim of a joke, my friend; just walk down your own Main Street in your own town and count the drunks and smell the liquor; does it shock you? Nauseate you? If those at home can do it, why not the boys who bled and fought for you? Instead of running down the American youth as you seem to delight in doing, you should thank your God that it is Americans running wild in Europe and not Nazis and Japs running wild...
General Motors strike leaders showed no sign of losing heart: at a workers' rally they talked of "shock troops," "panzer divisions," "the biggest pillbox." Other strikes were threatened in the nationwide Bell Telephone System, in New York City Western Union offices...
...enterprising Manhattan dealer this week opened a show that was likely to shock two kinds of people: 1) Christians, 2) lovers of the beautiful. An exhibition of modern religious painting, it was un likely to win any converts to religion-or to modern art, either. Samples...
...inmate of a mental hospital described his own reaction to electric shock treatment: "The zero hour arrives at last. . . . They are ushering me into a small cubicle. ... Six strong pairs of hands holding me down with an iron grip. . . . Then suddenly a flash of green lightning. . . . Numbers being read off, everything being carefully, scientifically, maddeningly checked (God in heaven, I can't swallow, I can't swallow...
BOAC could scrap its obsolete clippers (as Pan Am plans to do), buy surplus U.S. landplanes. But the British Government prefers not to shock proud Britons by using U.S. planes. Britons fallaciously believe that their own planemakers will soon produce suitable landplanes. Actually, Britain's first postwar landplane, the Tudor, will not be ready until spring, has no chance to compete with U.S. planes...